On Monday 07 August 2017 at 10:37 Frank O'Connor wrote: > Seems like another application of the old saying that ‘just because you can > do something, doesn’t mean you should do something.’ > [...] > And the blokes who come up with all these useless drone ideas are paid how > much for adding such little value to the lives of so many?
The gadget-ridden world they're trying to inflict on us is a result of a value-free corporate world where wisdom & responsibility are out of scope. And while Google at al are throwing away money on their drone fantasies, poverty in the U.S. is growing. According to Wikipedia at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States QUOTE Recent census data shows that half the population qualifies as poor or low income,[13] with one in five Millennials living in poverty.[14] Academic contributors to The Routledge Handbook of Poverty in the United States postulate that new and extreme forms of poverty have emerged in the U.S. as a result of neoliberal structural adjustment policies and globalization, which have rendered economically marginalized communities as destitute "surplus populations" in need of control and punishment.[15] UNQUOTE Nothing could better illustrate an unstable society heading for big trouble. Nor is Australia free of this dynamic. > ..at least one [eagle] of whom managed to bring down a drone that annoyed it > recently. More power to his wings! David L. _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
