You’re most probably correct and I was just being overly pedantic.

I take issue with literally zero percent.

How many of us came here over the reddit debacle? I can tell you for certain it isn’t zero.

Yes I believe a good portion are psychopaths or misguided in that they think they’re doing a greater good and they’re better suited to choose how to (or not) distribute that wealth. Like Bill Gates, dude did some terrible shit, then some good shit, but still he had the ego to keep going and building wealth because he thinks he knows best.

The sad thing is you could reset tomorrow and this or similar will always happen again, as like you say, there very nature is what leads them to the top as most people are not like that.

I find It fascinating even though I know very little about psychology.

I would do the same but I do feel, this isn’t defending them, that money seems to change people. Particularly if you build it gradually, you just become accustomed to slight changes.

As another example I have noticed. Look at the unbelievable stuff people have done like Harvey Weinstein, Musk, Trump etc.

I don’t believe people start out that insane or weird, it’s gradual. You’re a little strange but usually your peers keep your ego in check. Now if you happen to be powerful or rich, then the first strange thing you do is minor, they agree to go along and gradually the craziness escalates.

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Yet he still leads a life the absolute majority of people can even imagine. Not that most people would want such things as it’s grotesque to me that people would want more than they can use.

I guess I’m in the minority but I could not care less about money, sure it would be nice to have a more comfortable safety net, but anything above that is just useless.

I think we should value experiences and doing what you enjoy. After a certain point a bank balance is akin to a high score on a game, meaningless except to the person checking where they rank.

Well the shareholders have a right to question company being spent on side projects that do not work to increase the value for shareholders.

Sadly you can get away with a lot as a business just don’t piss off your share holders.

Well it depends what you’re buying really.

For computer parts I’m lucky that Scan is located near me in the UK.

Anything else just comes from stores in my town, supermarkets, etc or special stores. I don’t buy much that isn’t computer stuff really.

I stopped buying from Amazon a while back. The service went downhill quickly and the prices are not really competitive anymore, and for the few items they are cheaper I’d rather source it from a more reputable company than give my money to these fucks.

No. Many horses died.

Horses low maintenance? Sure I listened to a podcast ones about the worst designed animals and the horse was up there.

Like if you own a horse it’s really hard to keep them alive if they injure pretty much any part.

I’ll give that a try. Thanks.

It’s really great. Even when I forget I have it and get angry at the popup as it takes a bit longer than I usually take to click.

Use consent-o-matic.

You choose the level you want, so for me I don’t want anything but the required cookies. Now when I visit a webpage, after a few milliseconds consent-o-matic will automatically handle it for me, in a minimised state too.

Like this screen recording i made the first couple sites didn’t pop up as I mmust have been there before but on the telegraph you can see it work.

I couldn’t help but laugh when the article mentions the parent company that does threat intelligence. I think those governments might want to look elsewhere.

…and it plans to enslave humanity. Except for FredericChopin_ he always thanks the robots.

Nice.

I hope your leg is better.

You could do the same for each country.

There is no world crime per se. International crimes tend to be people trafficking and things more serious.

The crimes this thread is discussing are more related to crimes of necessity.

I must say I do like all your rejections of my argument without providing an argument yourself. Due to the one sided nature if this I’d prefer not to converse any longer.

Have a great day all the same buddy.

London

study from 2011

Edit: Also, you do realise that a poorer country relative a another still has its own subset of poor people and wealthy people. It’s not like a poor country is only poor people. Inequality is everywhere.

If you think about it’s easier to steal higher value items that have a good resale value, rather than a complete food shop.

Sure, some people steal out of more than necessity, whether that be drug addiction (which should also be fixed at the root) or other issues.

The fact is quite simple that the more we give people prospects then the more crime will go down.