If old people don't eventually die or if babies stop being born in large enough numbers Social Security is doomed.
Frank On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 12:22 PM uǝlƃ ☣ <[email protected]> wrote: > This is clearly wrong. People go berserk on a regular basis over various > injustices (the strangling of black men, lynching of trans people, > bankruptcy from healthcare bills, losing one's home because they got laid > off, living in a tent on the highway with 3 children, choosing between rent > and food, etc. I just posted a socialist video game, made by a socialist > media network, glorifying violence, that would not exist if *no one* went > berserk over these and other issues. The trick is that there are many of us > rich folk who choose to attribute the berserk goings on to other things, > treating the symptoms without ever addressing the underlying causes. > > To me, this pandemic has done us a favor and shed some light on how thin > the veneer is ... the thin, gauzy layer of bandaid holding in the mounds of > pustulent violence bubbling beneath it. We rich people are about to sit > through a Come to Jesus meeting with reality *unless* we reopen the economy > ... [cough] put our blinders back on ... so that we rich people can > continue to ignore the 3 million deaths every year. > > On 5/11/20 11:07 AM, Frank Wimberly wrote: > > My point is that NO ONE in the United States goes berserk over the FACT > that 2,871,000 people die – in this country alone – every year. > -- > ☣ uǝlƃ > > .-. .- -. -.. --- -- -..-. -.. --- - ... -..-. .- -. -.. -..-. -.. .- ... > .... . ... > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC <http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/FRIAM-COMIC> > http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > -- Frank Wimberly 140 Calle Ojo Feliz Santa Fe, NM 87505 505 670-9918
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