You may not care about the forced migration of millions of people as their land becomes blighted by drought or submerged by rising seas. But 1/3 of the world population relies on glacial meltwater for fresh water in the dry season - when the glaciers are gone (most in much less than a century if current mass balance trends continue) we will need to either introduce desalination on a scale we are completely unprepared for, or accept the deaths of possibly billions of people.
You make several good points, but the idea that we humans have more leisure time now than we did in our 'natural' state is bunk. Food collection required significantly less time than your average 'civilized' citizen works today. For example, studies of the hunter-gathering !Kung tribe have shown that they have more leisure time than industrialized people. Of course with this extra work we buy a significantly improved quality of life...
The increase in liquidity that comes with large trading volume (which day trading provides) is beneficial to the market, and allocates capital more efficiently.
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Rights are SELF evident, meaning they don't require anything from anyone else.
That phrase, I don't think it means what you think it means.
The first link actually concerns the deportation of a US citizen, unless you don't consider the mentally ill ``bonafide official''
You may not care about the forced migration of millions of people as their land becomes blighted by drought or submerged by rising seas. But 1/3 of the world population relies on glacial meltwater for fresh water in the dry season - when the glaciers are gone (most in much less than a century if current mass balance trends continue) we will need to either introduce desalination on a scale we are completely unprepared for, or accept the deaths of possibly billions of people.
You make several good points, but the idea that we humans have more leisure time now than we did in our 'natural' state is bunk. Food collection required significantly less time than your average 'civilized' citizen works today. For example, studies of the hunter-gathering !Kung tribe have shown that they have more leisure time than industrialized people. Of course with this extra work we buy a significantly improved quality of life...
I just hope that possibility is so abhorrent to the Universe that any multiverse it occurs in would be destroyed.
The increase in liquidity that comes with large trading volume (which day trading provides) is beneficial to the market, and allocates capital more efficiently.