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People wishing to be one with nature don't ever seem to realize that nature is brutal and horrific just as much as it is peaceful and serene. If anything it is more the former.
Yeah fuck nature. Domesticated cat is the sweet spot.
Outside free to roam a fairly safe territory and then snuggles and guaranteed food and shelter pretty much on command.
Ditto dog, but they've got a slightly less sweet deal.
Just like our lives, but at least theirs less to think about as a duck.
Return as a yew tree. Come on, eat me fuckers, I dare you.
Fun fact, the English wiped out their yew trees to make longbows
We still have them, though I do suspect a lot fewer than would be there naturally. We have now wiped out almost all of our woodland in general.
At least the animals are just trying to survive and procreate, rather than hoard more wealth than they can consume in a lifetime.
Think of invasive species or whatever happens when a balance in nature is toppled. If they would be able to hoard more wealth they would do it.
Shake a treat bag near a fat dog and see what happens.
He's try to eat it all, but he will not board hundreds thousands of times what he can possibly eat.
I often hear people complain that billionaires could never actually use all their wealth. The hoarding of the wealth for their "use" was never the point though.
Its all a game of power, influence, and leverage over other people. If you have more money than someone else, you get the ability to bully them. So for a billionaire, you want more money than the other billionaires. You also want to deprive poor and middle class people of wealth so they have even less leverage and are more desperate than they would be if you simply had a lot of money, and not all of the money.
You can get a starving homeless person to do a lot more for you with an offer of cheap gruel than you can a contented peasant with a solid gold bar.
Huh, am I the contented peasant, largely by refusing to accept the bullshit of consumerism?
It seems like I really dont need much money to be happy
Very few people realize how much we can impact the system if we all just rejected most things it offers us and lived the simplest life we could
The awesome thing about it is that it saves so much money, eliminates a lot of sources of stress, frees time and energy. You could cut back on work hours or retire earlier too!
Honestly think we should be pushing more for a 4 hour work week too.
You don't have to hoard wealth if you don't want to. I don't care for it and feel fine.
Me too! I mean, I wouldn't be able to have any hoarded wealth even If I wanted to, so at least I don't want it, so it's fine
I'm sorry to know you are hoarding more wealth than you can consume in a lifetime.
That was my reaction. You could compare isolated moments from any two lives so one looks blissful and the other looks horrible.