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barnfire | 8 years ago | on: Is-Vegan – Helps you to find out which food ingredients are vegan

I'm an atheist who eats a plant based diet but I didn't start out that way. I noticed that those who choose to eat meat are a lot like Christians in that they become unhinged when an atheist is in their midst. There's this reputation of the preachy hippy vegan, but in my experience it is the other way around.

barnfire | 8 years ago | on: Interpreting a market plunge

Everyone is waiting for a dramatic bubble to pop. I think it will be a slow decline followed by generations of stagnation. You can't discharge student loans, so young people can't buy new cars, houses, things to put in houses, etc. At the same time the value of such degrees are going down as more and more rush to get them. Health care costs are eating up the income/savings of everyone else.

The companies that will do well in the future are those that cater to a low-income demographic. I hear Dollar General is doing very well.

barnfire | 8 years ago | on: World's richest 500 see their wealth increase by $1T this year

If the wealthy had any interest in self-preservation, they would advocate higher taxes on themselves or some sort of UBI. But I'm sure Sam Walton's kids think they deserve everything they have.

barnfire | 8 years ago | on: Men Resist Green Behavior as Un-Manly

I've come to the conclusion that our stupid biological impulse to rub our genitals together will be the ultimate limiter on how far our species can go. We're just monkeys wearing pants, desperate to take them off and fling poo, procreate or rip someone's face off.

We need a Brave New World type future where babies are grown in a lab, neutered and handed a month long prescription of soma.