Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — less than one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
Ending hunger by 2030 would cost just $93 billion a year — less than one per cent of the $21.9 trillion spent on military budgets over the past decade, according to the UN World Food Programme (WFP).
… it’s just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It’s only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one. Here’s what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride: Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace. – Bill Hicks
Also:
‘By the way, if anyone here is in advertising or marketing…kill yourself….There’s no rationalisation for what you do and you are Satan’s little helpers.’ - Bill Hicks
Ah the anti advertising angle. That’s a good angle!
Biiiig dollar!
YUS!
That’s the very line (and the rest of that bit) that got me out of advertising.
For the whole of the 3 months I was animating my first TV advert, I played a Bill Hicks VHS over and over in the background, wearing it out to snow.
Bill Hicks saved me, by telling me to kill myself. :)
Marketing and advertising are like enchantment spells in fantasy. Theoretically they have beneficial uses but for some reason the only thing we can think to do with them is try our best to remove consent and be generally intrusive.
Speak softly and carry a big stick. Unfortunately we’ve in the real world, and in the real world the only people who matter are those with nukes. See ukraine for just one example.
Blessed are the meek.