orange_squeezer

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[–] orange_squeezer@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What? It's literally the opposite. Do you remember the discovery that owning horses extends your lifespan by several years, not for any merit of its own, but because it strictly excludes the poor and most of the middle class?

The more money you have, the healthier you are, the longer you live, and the happier you tend to be. It's straight propaganda that being rich is somehow a burden or requires people of exceptional mental strength to struggle on.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3139960/

[–] orange_squeezer@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

This is the funniest thing I've read all day. Just the fact that you think companies will just swallow lost profits instead of bleeding actual customers (that being you and me) dry.

China is the world's second largest economy and they make all their own stuff. The entire US market is only 15% of their exports. That, with a centrally managed economy means that they can easily ride out the trade war while the US burns to the ground.

[–] orange_squeezer@lemm.ee 2 points 3 weeks ago

There is, but it's basically made up to support the notion that it's very difficult to stay rich. It's actually very rare for subsequent generations to lose inherited wealth, it just gets partitioned out so there are dozens or hundreds of rich people instead of one disgustingly wealthy individual.

Similar to lottery winners losing everything, it makes a much bigger headline when one loses everything despite it being incredibly uncommon.

[–] orange_squeezer@lemm.ee 4 points 4 weeks ago

Probably not, because they aren't soldiers. Private military contractors and random citizens can be found fighting all over the world. If China's military got involved in Ukraine it would be an enormous geopolitical issue that would be akin to shooting itself in the face for an unreliable partner.