This comic was drawn by Tom Toro and was originally published in The New York Times on November 25, 2012.
More like "Yes, the planet got destroyed, but we smart rich people stockpiled enough resources so that it's only your problem, peasant. Fuck you."
Or at least we thought we did until we realized that our money became worthless and we couldn't pay our guards anymore
The smart ones will have their sons and daughters intermarry into the families of the guards. Whether or not their pride will allow them to actually do that is another thing. That and there is a chance the guards will probably just takeover anyways. That or a well armed raiding group will take em out.
This reminds me of something that's often missed. If you think of the destruction and resource accumulation in terms of energy transfer, we don't accumulate the equivalent of what we destroy. Instead we let a star's energy do the destruction while we accumulate a tiny fraction alongside that.
Differently put, it's like profiting off the energy in the act of changing the temperature of the room's thermostat, not from the energy the heating system will dump in the room as a result of this change.
I think this is one reason why the profits made off climate destruction cannot cover the repair cost.
I think about this one often.
This isn't accurate at all. The kids won't survive the collapse of society.
there was a time when keeping money in a savings account, uninvested, didn't mean you were actively losing money
The inflation rate has just about always been positive (besides a few rare years in the 1920s and 1930s). Holding dollars has always lost you buying power. Its just that in recent years, the rate of inflation has been enough for more people to notice.
I believe there's a bunch of stock bros thinking "I'm gonna be that guy!" and going full speed ahead towards making it happen.
