They’re the biggest reason assisted dying would be so popular, regardless of how it was run.

This is their world, and they must benefit to permit something merciful for the people to happen. Their malice is already everywhere, for this to even have a chance of ever existing, they must get their cut, or they wouldn’t let their middle managers in governments pass it. Just the reality.

I was just suggesting a potential offering to the rule makers to make it achievable. They have no kindness or mercy to appeal to, only money.

With a waiting period, I think assisted dying should be available for adults in general, regardless of terminal illness.

No one opted in, and at least in my society where we are belligerently unwilling to tangibly help one another, where most are expected to endlessly produce regardless of our wellbeing under threat of homelessness and gruesome death by exposure, and where struggling people are often condemned for being lazy or making bad decisions when they’re already down, it would be a small, efficient mercy to allow a quiet, painless opt out.

We could even have the capitalists run it and charge a small fee since they need to turn everything into a for profit endeavor. Everyone wins.

Walking dead reference, everyone in the villain’s gang called themselves Negan it was a pop culture thing.

You might be, I consider myself Negan.

Technically everything is, including us.

Lets be fair, Steve Huffman did most of the work to make Lemmy so popular.

Shout out to the old r/jailbait mod for making in happen!

This could be an international treaty against punching kittens, and they would still vote no.

Plus McConnell would never ratify a treaty that outlaws his favorite pastime.

It’s more than that, because Republican governors have been actively trying and succeeding in rolling back hard won child labor protection laws.

It’s not just about not having the foreigns telling them what to do, it’s because Republicans want children providing cheap labor to boost their stock portfolio. Here. Now.

And emulate.

Yeah 😔

Honestly anyone who would ask “where were they born” when considering whether to care about children getting hurt or killed is an unredeemable monster.

We don’t have to coerce others directly, we appeal to the greed and powerlust of leaders of other markets, let their powerful do the coercion of their people and change their protections, and the global markets have a new workforce and resource market to exploit and extract value from. Everybody* wins.

Everybody that already holds power and/or meaningful capital anyway, and that’s all that matters. Fuck the livestock.

One way or another, the global capital market must continue to grow/metastasize… on a finite world, with finite resources, and a sole, shared, COMMUNal environment we all rely on from one breath to the next. Yeah…

Our brand of rigged market capitalism truly found it’s stride under Reagan’s deregulation giveaway. We’ve been exporting/advocating/bullying other developed nations to do the same ever since. There are tightly, tightly controlled, adequately taxed capitalist economies that focus on how REASONABLE capital incentive can benefit society (the point of any economy, that we’ve abandoned) that can work, like the Nordic model, but now we’re coming for that too, and we’ll do to them what we did to the UK and are doing to France.

It’s an easy sell. A faustian bargain. You just need a few people in the right positions of power. “Hey, YOU can live larger. You can live like a modern pharoah. Just sell out your countrymen. Do you like yachts? How about yachts the size of cruise ships?”

Don’t forget, our capitalists have been hard at work infecting the rest of the world with OUR greed disease. We’re the ones advocating other nations stop seeing their people as valued citizens and instead as capital livestock to be exploited mercilessly.

Child labor exists elsewhere out of desperate, struggling developing economies. We’re worse imho, because we’re doing it amid record profits, because its never enough, and our gluttonous pig oligarch owners ever demanding mooooaaaaaar, exploiting these kids whose schools they’ve already destroyed and stole the funding of through tax evasion and legislative tax policy capture.

We aren’t human to them, we’re capital livestock, which just makes our non-wealthy children capital veal.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/20/republican-child-labor-law-death

Yes.

https://youtu.be/H-PSCqhkWhg?si=WfSvAWVkEVr42ySr

George Carlin - Your Owners

“Of course it’s true! Supply side economics is the cornerstone doctrine of colleges of economics the world over!”

And the entrenched, generational capital that fund/endow the most prestigious colleges of economics, that the rest want to be like, clearly stand to gain nothing ensuring global economic theory revolves around give the owner class all the money and pray for rain.

“Your socioeconomic status is a measure of work ethic, sacrifice, and ability to make good decisions. Poor people deserve to be poor, and suffer, for making bad decisions.”

Birth lottery which includes not just wealth but family connections is the biggest metric. We are way down the list of developed nations in terms of upward mobility. Only the outliers that prove to be of the greatest service to entrenched capital are granted entry. Most Americans, religious or not, have internalized the dogma of the prosperity gospel, itself an absolute parody of the dogma of Christianity it claims to be part of.

Go to any local fast food restaurant at rush hour, hell, go to any produce field at harvest, and tell me how much that studious hard work pays off. conversely, please regail me with tales of how hard it is to be a capital landlord, making investments gambling with insider information with capital gained from previous exploitations, and then merely expecting an endless steam of capital for NO labor into what generated it. It’s like we were conquered by the traveling snake oil salesmen of old.

It’s called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

No one gets to try to tell me how I should feel about something.

No one gets to try to shame/guilt me about what I believe.

No one gets to take my self-advocacy, as I am my only advocate.

“You will have nothing and be happy with it”

“YESSIR RIGHT AWAY SIR!”

My problem is with a specific, hyper common ingredient of Indian food: Cumin

I’m sorry, but garlic, onion, cloves, etc don’t even come close to the clinging, pervasive staying power of cumin.

I don’t like to smell what I cook or eat for days after the fact.

A history of all of our misdeeds and self-inflicted suffering, probably 1gb of compressed literature and 3gb of imagery and video, along with an Earnest plea:

Please if you are able, either teach us how to save us from ourselves, or be merciful and destroy us. Don’t let this self-inflicted carnage of we barely sapient creatures commit on one another due to lack of meaningful intellect or empathy continue.

Either take our hand and teach us as the confused, selfish, irrational children that we are, or just end this evolutionary mistake.