Wikileaks says Wednesday is the End for Hillary.

xorcist at sigaint.org xorcist at sigaint.org
Mon Oct 3 13:20:05 PDT 2016


> I suppose. If the 'good life' includes sleeping with a tire iron and a
> big knife to fend off predators of the human species.
>
> In SOME COUNTRIES the homeless may not get fat or have ipods but the
> odds of being attacked by an idiot kid of the gentry, or being lit up,
> is pretty slim. I say it's a trade off.

Well, I can't speak to the exact forms of violence that may or may not be
rampant in "shanty" communities or the like in third world countries, or
what their people have to deal with, exactly, but I would be very
surprised if those societies didn't have human predators as well. In many
3rd world countries, arms are essentially unregulated, and are quite
common. That would suggest to me that violence, of some form, is a daily
routine.

I know that plenty of African women feel the need to carry around AKs to
fend off rapists. I know that a first world homeless guy may have to worry
about individual attacks from some college jock, but he doesn't have to
worry about sleeping under the wrong bridge that gets bombed.

I saw a study, by MIT recently, that estimated the carbon usage of first
world humans compared to third world. In particular, it was striking to me
because first world homeless people are estimated to use 8 tons of carbon
in the form of the services they have available to them, whereas third
worlders used about 4. I think energy consumption is probably a reasonable
gauge for quality of life, at least in the physical sense.

Again, I'm not saying by any stretch that first world homeless have it
easy or anything like that -- but I'm just trying to keep an eye on the
perspective and to remember that even part-time workers in the first world
making $25k-30k USD are globally in the 1% or so.

And my concern is, for those people that are just getting by or are on the
streets, now.. societal collapse will burden them most of all. The rich
are going to hole themselves up in their mountain houses, top-floor
penthouses, and gated communities playing the fiddle like Nero as the
world burns.

It'll be every day people that get burned.



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