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The more money Bezos spends the better, Not if it cranks up the global carbon footprint, and wastes resources better left in the ground. At some people we sim

by vanusa 5y ago

The more money Bezos spends the better, Not if it cranks up the global carbon footprint, and wastes resources better left in the ground. At some people we simply don't need to grant these people the "right" to build whatever ego-inflating toys they want, wherever they want. Useless $500m boats like that simply shouldn't be built.

zaroth 5y ago
"Cranks up" the global carbon footprint -- relative to what? "Wastes" resources better left in the ground -- according to whom? You think someone needs to be _granted_ the *right* to research and develop a great feat of human engineering? What it sounds like you're describing is communism, and it's an incredibly destructive and brutal philosophy to try to control people like this. I have no issue with Bezos paying the full share of the net externalities of the project. I suspect a proper accounting would show significant net positive externalities to society, but if the scales were net negative then by all means tax it. I suspect that amount of taxes Bezos will pay all said and done as a result of this project are fairly astronomical. To say that a person has no business or no right or no reason to build something incredible like this is beyond sad, it's a line of thinking that free democracies have gone to war against to protect themselves from. To say this creation should not allowed to be built in any case, is IMO a violation of basic human rights and decency and crushing to the human spirit.
- vanusa 5y ago
  What I see as "incredibly destructive and brutal" is getting your jollies building useless toys while the planet is dying. When I hear the phrase "violating basic human rights and decency", I think of how this guy runs his warehouses. And letting your people die because you never did preparation drills, and had them come to work during a major storm so your business could save a few pennies. Edwardsville city officials identified the names of the six deceased on Sunday, who ranged in age from 26 to 62. Among the victims identified by authorities was Larry Virden, 46, whose daughter Justice Virden told ABC News' Rob Marciano for "Good Morning America", "I walked out of that building after they told me my dad was gone, and I dropped to my knees and screamed at the sky at the top of my lungs." "I said 'No, my dad's coming home," Justice Virden said. "'I need my daddy. He can't leave.'"
- vanusa 5y ago
  "Wastes" resources better left in the ground -- according to whom? The same people who decide, for example, that you can't just chop down a forest of old-growth trees so that you can make a killing selling them as chopsticks. Whom you are welcome to call "communists" if you want.

by vanusa 5y ago

zaroth 5y ago

"Cranks up" the global carbon footprint -- relative to what? "Wastes" resources better left in the ground -- according to whom? You think someone needs to be _granted_ the *right* to research and develop a great feat of human engineering? What it sounds like you're describing is communism, and it's an incredibly destructive and brutal philosophy to try to control people like this. I have no issue with Bezos paying the full share of the net externalities of the project. I suspect a proper accounting would show significant net positive externalities to society, but if the scales were net negative then by all means tax it. I suspect that amount of taxes Bezos will pay all said and done as a result of this project are fairly astronomical. To say that a person has no business or no right or no reason to build something incredible like this is beyond sad, it's a line of thinking that free democracies have gone to war against to protect themselves from. To say this creation should not allowed to be built in any case, is IMO a violation of basic human rights and decency and crushing to the human spirit.

vanusa 5y ago
What I see as "incredibly destructive and brutal" is getting your jollies building useless toys while the planet is dying. When I hear the phrase "violating basic human rights and decency", I think of how this guy runs his warehouses. And letting your people die because you never did preparation drills, and had them come to work during a major storm so your business could save a few pennies. Edwardsville city officials identified the names of the six deceased on Sunday, who ranged in age from 26 to 62. Among the victims identified by authorities was Larry Virden, 46, whose daughter Justice Virden told ABC News' Rob Marciano for "Good Morning America", "I walked out of that building after they told me my dad was gone, and I dropped to my knees and screamed at the sky at the top of my lungs." "I said 'No, my dad's coming home," Justice Virden said. "'I need my daddy. He can't leave.'"
vanusa 5y ago
"Wastes" resources better left in the ground -- according to whom? The same people who decide, for example, that you can't just chop down a forest of old-growth trees so that you can make a killing selling them as chopsticks. Whom you are welcome to call "communists" if you want.