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This is really how they see the world
(thelemmy.club)
yelling at every cat i see "get a fucking job"
My freeloading orange roommate refuses to pay rent and makes me clean his shit
you go up to a baby like "what is your commercial purpose??? ANSWER ME" nad it's all goo goo ga gah
That's a big part of why children and especially babies basically do not exist in Ayn Rand fantasies. There's some (ableist slur) children in The Fountainhead that are guilty of the crime of existing in a sacred rich asshole building without pulling their weight, but that's it. 
All that said, the Ayn Rand School for Tots is one of my favorite bits from the Simpsons
God that's disgusting. And even if I were to be as entirely self-serving and utilitarian as this person, we need our ecosystem as stable as possible for our own survival. Do these people think we live in a vacuum?
Yes
Do these people think we live in a vacuum?
They believe in a version of the Happiness Monster that requires all the happiness in exchange for more happiness trickling down later, so the Happiness Monsters promise. It's why a core belief of "Effective Altruists" is that climate collapse and environmental decay are irrelevant because they are looking billions of years into the future, where all those billions of years ahead require in the present is that billionaires get even richer, faster, so they can ostensibly build the robot god. 
The vacuum of space
Commercial purpose is FUCKIN' POLLINATING YOU ABSOLUTE KNOB
I deeply despise people who flippantly dismiss entire swathes of existence for the sole reason they can’t profit off it. Imagine thinking plant pollination as a concept is best addressed by allowing the destruction of nature and having the tech industry engineer a solution that can be parceled off and sold after deciding it wasn’t profitable enough to prevent the pollinators going extinct.
I have seen the same argument against planting trees too , that tree planting is not profitable and hence it is not a good way to combat global warming ! I mean ....
no see we have to financialise forests via carbon tax credits as industrial offsets. this is good for the environment.
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Fellas, what is pollination?
idk sounds gay
It kind of is 
tag yourself i'm pollen receipt
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I hate yellowjackets because they are little demons that try to sting you.
You hate yellowjackets because they are unprofitable.
We are not the same.
We can resolve this contradiction by setting up a fund to pay for the training of yellow jackets to mercilessly sting reactionaries.
Wasps against WASPs.
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“What Good Is a New-born Baby?”
I used to be a psychotic little Randian, trying to make sense of Objectivism's ridiculous contradictions, until I realized I couldn't square the circle of why people should have kids.
Babies have absolutely no value in a purely individualistic profit-seeking world. Why would anybody have a kid if they can't even send it to work in the uranium mines for 5 whole years?
In other words, I realized that if everybody acted the way Ayn Rand wanted them to, that would be the last generation of a species that chooses to extinguish itself.
Which is why children are as absent as the Working Class in all her books.
In other words, I realized that if everybody acted the way Ayn Rand wanted them to, that would be the last generation of a species that chooses to extinguish itself.
No wonder so many Randroids openly hate children and have power fantasies of living forever.
Honestly, people in general need to be sat down and told that bugs are important towards a functioning world. The bumblebees, spiders, and potato bugs serve a vital role in the ecosystem of you having literally anything other than shit made of metal or plastic. Sorry, I tend to soapbox on this kinda stuff.
The bumblebees, spiders, and potato bugs serve a vital role in the ecosystem of you having literally anything other than shit made of metal or plastic
For a lot of techbros, that's the problem. They want nothing but shit made of metal or plastic or some bazinga VR heaven to escape to.
AI will find a way to eat metal
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Uncritical support to non honey bees in their heroic struggle against the ecocidal human race 🐝 
Once again a comment I made on my bit account gets stated plainly without the irony, I think it’s impossible to do a good bit on Reddit or Lemmy because any ghoulish take you can think of ironically is something that some amount of users believe completely. Absurd.
"Ebenezer Scrooge and the Galactic Empire were good, actually."
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me, a farmer, pointing to EVERY FUCKING THING OUTSIDE
Those bees won't increase my profit margins, exterminate the competition 
Talk to Silicon Valley computer touchers enough and sooner or later they'll tell you that "meatspace" is so full of "inefficiencies" such as endangered species that should just die already in favor of more e-products taking their place. 
In bad country, the intelligentia have contempt for life itself and expect everything in the universe to serve some industrial end... or perish. 
Color doesn't have a commercial value, but they always show communism in grayscale
a number of specific hues of color are considered copyrighted by pompous rich assholes already!
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Color doesn't have a commercial value
Some colours are actually trademarked. The exact shade of grey used on Amazon delivery vehicles is trademarked exclusively to them.
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anyone who is this far into the capitalist cult deserves to be executed on the spot, what kind of fucking ghoul do you have to be for this kind of sentence to not only enter your brain but you think it's a good idea to type this out and hit enter??? my fucking conservative 69 year old grandma would think this is a horrifying sentence, what the actual fuck
The worst part is somehow they got 8 upvotes?
the upvoters get gulag instead of execution is my verdict
lowkey i think im a sweat bee whisperer. whenever one is nearby it wants to just chill on me. im not even sweaty, maybe they think im a flower
bumble bees are probably my favorite though, theyre so chubby and cute
goofy fluffy ass mfs
They sting assholes like you
life is an externality
Maintaining healthy pollinator populations is vital for the economy of my region. When pollination is disrupted, it is a huge deal and everybody knows about it. Is this post fake, and just designed to make me mad?
Making you mad serves no commercial purpose, so what's the point???
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Isn't that comment sarcasm? The double triple question marks makes it seem like they're joking but maybe I'm reading their tone wrong.
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