Australia Cuts 110 Climate Scientist Jobs

[haele]

17. If "they" think they can buy their way out of destruction, they're woefully deluded.

Making up one's own "reality" won't work on a planetary scale. Even if "expendables" are just gotten rid of quickly enough to avoid widespread civil warfare and enough damage to make any "small colony" survival preparations effective. Any survivors that would be allowed to accompany "the masters of the universe" will never just happy to allow a bunch of rich m-f'ers boss them around without being able to wipe their own butts unless a servant does it for them.
History has never been kind to slave owners - the risk of revolt was always present, and the brutal enforcement methods needed to keep the under class in line always made the risk of revolt greater.
People will only maintain the status quo when they're comfortable, given the appearance of being respected for their efforts, and are otherwise pandered to. Once there's no more pandering or they become uncomfortable or treated as if they were fungible, then you start seeing civil unrest.

I think the reason that the love of money is so evil is that it makes people short-term clever, but long-term stupid. Since one can presumably "buy their way out of trouble", having large amounts of money just re-enforces bad decision-making.

Haele