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tycho wrote:Wakanyugi wrote:masukuma wrote:
The worlds top 300 people own more than the bottom 3 billion.
Holy Fcuck! In which Universe can this be fair, or sustainable? Thanks for sharing. One more thing to drive me up the wall. I tell you, we need a revolution! Hannah Arendt reminds us that Revolution is akin to the earth going round the Sun. That is, it's something that happens on it's own. The world is equalizing itself. One doesn't even need to do anything. The world will never be equal ...in war, the army in the elevated position with a good view of the terrain has an enormous, almost insurmountable advantage. This is also true in the case of distribution of wealth - the wealthy are entrenched it is almost impossible to reallocate those resources. Resources are finite. The best that can be done is to try to uplift the majority of citizens to a decent (or good) living standard, like Scandinavian countries do. May be that is what revolutions are all about.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/4/2006 Posts: 13,823 Location: Nairobi
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Wakanyugi wrote:masukuma wrote:
The worlds top 300 people own more than the bottom 3 billion.
Holy Fcuck! In which Universe can this be fair, or sustainable? Thanks for sharing. One more thing to drive me up the wall. I tell you, we need a revolution! that was my initial reaction too my expression was very French too. I was like - how is this sustainable? The one thing people fail to understand is that this position is not future-proof! people tend to forget that laws are social contracts that everyone agrees to and buys in on. in a world where you child will never be whomever they desire due to inter-generational social mobility is not sustainable! this condition could have worked in the 19th and 20th century where information was controlled by 'silos of information' aka the press and TV stations that drove a certain agenda. in the mordern world it has to loosen or break (anyone wondering why we are having strikes day in day out?). the patience message is not going to work in this century. personally this is how I change the rules - I break them! I break IP rules daily! I cannot agree to a construct that disadvantages me. All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 4/22/2010 Posts: 11,522 Location: Nairobi
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Do they steal from you? possunt quia posse videntur
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/4/2006 Posts: 13,823 Location: Nairobi
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maka wrote:Do they steal from you? they stole from you and rigged the system long before you even realized! perhaps the question should be - what is 'yours'? Is 'yours' what the rigged system gives to you for your troubles? All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 6/2/2011 Posts: 4,824 Location: -1.2107, 36.8831
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The statistics are shocking, but what can you do. At the start of July 2013, a USA embassy IT employee, Mr. Joshua Walde, killed a Kenyan man, Mr. Haji Lihanda, who was in a matatu (Nissan) travelling from work along Ngechu Rd, Nairobi. To my surprise, 3 days later, Mr. Walde was flown out of the country by the US embassy using a fake name & passport, just to avoid giving justice to the poor Lihanda family. Scream as much as you want about injustices, marginalization, inequality and revolution, but to tell you the truth, MUTASEMA, MUTACHOKA KISHA MUKALALE! Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.” ― Rashi
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/4/2006 Posts: 13,823 Location: Nairobi
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dunkang wrote:The statistics are shocking, but what can you do. At the start of July 2013, a USA embassy IT employee, Mr. Joshua Walde, killed a Kenyan man, Mr. Haji Lihanda, who was in a matatu (Nissan) travelling from work along Ngechu Rd, Nairobi. To my surprise, 3 days later, Mr. Walde was flown out of the country by the US embassy using a fake name & passport, just to avoid giving justice to the poor Lihanda family.
Scream as much as you want about injustices, marginalization, inequality and revolution, but to tell you the truth, MUTASEMA, MUTACHOKA KISHA MUKALALE! history is not done yet - the pen that writes history is not out of ink! history is being written everyday! All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/1/2011 Posts: 8,804 Location: Nairobi
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quicksand wrote:tycho wrote:Wakanyugi wrote:masukuma wrote:
The worlds top 300 people own more than the bottom 3 billion.
Holy Fcuck! In which Universe can this be fair, or sustainable? Thanks for sharing. One more thing to drive me up the wall. I tell you, we need a revolution! Hannah Arendt reminds us that Revolution is akin to the earth going round the Sun. That is, it's something that happens on it's own. The world is equalizing itself. One doesn't even need to do anything. The world will never be equal ...in war, the army in the elevated position with a good view of the terrain has an enormous, almost insurmountable advantage. This is also true in the case of distribution of wealth - the wealthy are entrenched it is almost impossible to reallocate those resources. Resources are finite. The best that can be done is to try to uplift the majority of citizens to a decent (or good) living standard, like Scandinavian countries do. May be that is what revolutions are all about. I'm reading Harvey Cox's 'The secular city', and the world of the 'Technopolis' is getting clearer to me. This isn't the world we are accustomed to. In this world everything will be intelligent, information ubiquitous, and time 'multilinear'. Tribes and Kinship will take a new twist as humans will be living forever. Even the dead will be resurrected. Lol. At 100mbps and above all this will happen. 'Faiba'! No one will be poor. A good analogy is 'The last Samurai'. Our world is changing like Japan then. The new world had Howitzers, and a westernized mind (Christianized mind- 'Secularized' mind). The Samurai philosophy had to die. In the same manner will the present world shatter from 'town' to 'Konza Technocity'.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 7/1/2011 Posts: 8,804 Location: Nairobi
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masukuma wrote:dunkang wrote:The statistics are shocking, but what can you do. At the start of July 2013, a USA embassy IT employee, Mr. Joshua Walde, killed a Kenyan man, Mr. Haji Lihanda, who was in a matatu (Nissan) travelling from work along Ngechu Rd, Nairobi. To my surprise, 3 days later, Mr. Walde was flown out of the country by the US embassy using a fake name & passport, just to avoid giving justice to the poor Lihanda family.
Scream as much as you want about injustices, marginalization, inequality and revolution, but to tell you the truth, MUTASEMA, MUTACHOKA KISHA MUKALALE! history is not done yet - the pen that writes history is not out of ink! history is being written everyday! History writes itself. Sankara is a Marionette. We all are.
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Rank: Elder Joined: 10/4/2006 Posts: 13,823 Location: Nairobi
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tycho wrote:masukuma wrote:dunkang wrote:The statistics are shocking, but what can you do. At the start of July 2013, a USA embassy IT employee, Mr. Joshua Walde, killed a Kenyan man, Mr. Haji Lihanda, who was in a matatu (Nissan) travelling from work along Ngechu Rd, Nairobi. To my surprise, 3 days later, Mr. Walde was flown out of the country by the US embassy using a fake name & passport, just to avoid giving justice to the poor Lihanda family.
Scream as much as you want about injustices, marginalization, inequality and revolution, but to tell you the truth, MUTASEMA, MUTACHOKA KISHA MUKALALE! history is not done yet - the pen that writes history is not out of ink! history is being written everyday! History writes itself. Sankara is a Marionette. We all are. everything major change requires a critical mass to make this changed - we don't have it...YET! information and the flow of information is the one thing that will turn this around... when - i don't know. All Mushrooms are edible! Some Mushroom are only edible ONCE!
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