BygoneNeutrino

While you're correct, the cumulative effect of lower class and middle class Americans on 3rd world peoples dwarfs that of the upper class. It takes a lot of time and resources to maintain the lifestyle of a single person working 40 hours at McDonald's.

His consumer products were made in 3rd world factories polluting their local environments and the coffee he's drinking was bought for less than a dollar a kilogram from a farmer destroying a priceless rainforest. When this impact is multiplied by three-hundred million, the effects are as dramatic as they are unsustainable.

...I try not to think about it. It's a conflict between guilt and gratitude.

It has nothing to do with your privacy. The comment I'm responding to has to do with driving while tired. In my community, not driving while tired isn't an option. I'd need to spend $70 per day to ride five miles with Uber. "Personalized pricing."

Before the Internet, kids lived isolated existences that precluded communication. They would sit in their rooms, listen to records, and engage in immoral masterbatory behavior.

From a global perspective, lower class Americans fit the criteria for being rich. The true conflict is between 1st world countries and the global poor.

The majority of Americans-both Democrats and Republicans -support some form of universal healthcare. The fact that neither party supports it is evidence that they are working together to withhold it from the populace.

...it sometimes feels like we are only given a say on the least relevant issues. We get to decide who joins which highschool sports team, but we aren't given a say on how we spend our tax dollars.

I believe they need to start randomly drug testing politicians and public officials. They should be held to the same standards as the 30% of the workforce that are legally required to be part of the government's drug-free workplace program.

If the person manufacturing their toilet paper isn't allowed to smoke weed or take drugs, they shouldn't be allowed to either. Since the head of the FBI is undoubtedly a sensitive safety position, they shouldn't even be allowed to take prescription controlled substances.

It's controlled by a government. A government that has trillions of dollars worth of real assets isn't nearly as safe or secure as digital currency backed by the block chain. It has been scientifically proven that human imagination is infinite. Bitcoin going to the moon isn't an assumption, it's a fact.

Star Trek is on the softer side of science fiction. It's just a sitcom in space. When you watch most series based on books (i.e The expanse), major changes need to be made because it doesn't translate well to the screen.

Using the expanse as an example, the spacers were supposed to be deformed by our standards. They eliminated all the hard sci-fi elements of their appearance. If a book involves a realistic alien civilization, an adaptation is rarely made