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Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.
by ceebs (ceebs (at) eurotrib (dot) com) on Wed Feb 4th, 2009 at 11:08:20 AM EST
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If the plan is to get rid of 99.99% of the world population (how's THAT for GREEN?) and still have a world for the ultra-wealthy to frolic in, you want to make sure the "stuff" isn't damaged.

Rubble is so unsightly.

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Wed Feb 4th, 2009 at 02:31:15 PM EST
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Interesting. What would be the value of "wealth" in a world with only 0.01% of its current population? These guys gonna drive beat-up old cars, dig their own gardens, and clean their own shithouses, or what?
by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Wed Feb 4th, 2009 at 03:53:31 PM EST
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Biochemists/MDs/Engineers are NOW giving the wealthy the HOPE of genuine IMMORTALITY.  That's right.  Aging and dying, that old fear of death ... gone forever for the rich.  Or at least, that's how the brochure reads.

But what good is living forever in a shithole with billions of starving dangerous human rabble milling around.

Question: What would be the world population size if ONLY the ultrawealthy and a host of loyal servants comprised the entire population?  A Green's Dream!

In the end, might makes right. Nothing has changed since the caveman.

by THE Twank (yatta blah blah @ blah.com) on Wed Feb 4th, 2009 at 04:04:40 PM EST
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Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith
by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Wed Feb 4th, 2009 at 05:38:56 PM EST
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This is an obscure cartoon that mostly appears in minor alternative and hyperaltnertative weeklies in Edmonton and Vancouver (minor cities in the Far West of Canada).

I remember it well from when it first appeared in print, because Da Far West is where I used to live.

How one earth ever did you find this?

by PIGL on Fri Feb 6th, 2009 at 07:16:03 AM EST
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Someone else posted this particular strip on ET once, and I have posted it a few times since.

However, I happened to be a math graduate student in SoCal in a previous life, and the department was full of graduate students who knew and shared a lot about obscure alternative and hyperalternative cartoons. The wackiest students were my advisor's, and a most of us shared the same office.

Those were the days, oh yes, those were the days.



Most economists teach a theoretical framework that has been shown to be fundamentally useless. -- James K. Galbraith

by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sat Feb 7th, 2009 at 10:55:36 AM EST
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Ouch: I remember that song, from the days of first transistor radio. That must be why I imagined it was from the early 70s.

PIGL, wandering off to roll his trousers.

by PIGL on Mon Feb 9th, 2009 at 11:08:52 AM EST
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