Andylusion
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Its so amusing to see posters on a message board calling Stephen Hawking an idiot. He is the Einstein of our age.
He is right of course. I would add all the rest is just talk as Global Warming is the one thing we will not stop and have never seen before. Physics and chemistry are about to decide which species survive the next mass extinction, which has already begun, and which will go gone. Humans will likely suffer massive losses and if not go extinct come perilously close.
The worst part is most humans don't have a clue about what is coming and soon to arrive. Much like the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Something wicked this way comes.
Ya. I was struck by that, too. What I will say is if one believes that the world can be a better place, and one knows the history of unfettered capitalism, then intelligent people would acknowledge that capitalism needs to be tempered... tempered by wage and hour laws; tempered by child labor laws; tempered by OSHA regulations; tempered by laws preventing monopolies.
ony people who are very ignorant or who have no sense of social responsibility think that capitalism should be unfettered. so it isn't surprising that Stephen hawking, someone who has spent his life studying the way our world works, would understand some of that. I don't know how far he goes in those beliefs though. It's an interesting discussion to have.... well, except when one has it with people who are so ignorant that they fancy themselves smarter than Stephen hawking.
Social Responsibility is what dictators use to oppress the public.
Unfettered Capitalism, is what socialists call socialism that doesn't work, so they can promote more socialism. Unfettered Capitalism is what built this country, and quite frankly, the standard of living in this country rose faster in the 1800s than it has in the 'regulated' capitalism of the 1900s, and now we're going broke.
Show that is true.
Sure, just give me an example of your claims of unfettered capitalism. I've asked for such examples before, and it is always some socialized system, that some socialist pulled out their ideological label maker, and slapped "capitalism" on it.
So go ahead. Give me your example.