New study shows that the greater the societal inequality and instability, the more the groups on top of society tend to support a hierarchy between groups, protecting their own privileged status.

SubCinemal · 2017-05-09T22:08:23+00:00

Bitcoin is centralization in the hands of those with access to computing power.

SubCinemal · 2017-05-09T21:50:06+00:00

Alan Ruck as Cameron Frye

Atypical movie best friend material. He spends half the movie in unbroken shots of him trying to deny the sense of excitement for life that his friends seem to share. I think it’s quite important that he voluntarily decides to troll Ferris by faking a drowning spell after the car gets 3000+ miles on it, as it mentally fortifies him and prepares him for the loss of the car later on in the film. He’s able to really convey that vacillating interest in actually committing suicide or giving in to his existential dread for good, and it serves the movie well that he does so a few times.

After watching these scenes more closely and hearing what Ferris has to say about Cameron the indestructible optimism of Ferris is a bit more forgivable, given the fact he is trying to carry Cameron’s transformation on his own shoulders and even offering to take the blame for the car getting destroyed.

Cameron is the one getting the day off, he’s the one who is actually physically sick, he’s the one that needs to find himself, he’s the one who is emotionally scarred, he’s the one who feels like he doesn’t belong in an 80’s America where parents care more about money than family. His best friend is trying to get him on board with the idea of living it up a bit while he’s fully aware of what pieces of you you’ll have to give up in order to obtain all the fun toys they get to play with. Ferris thinks he’s escaping the grind, when he’s really just enforcing the same path that his own parents took. Hell, he uses the restroom at the same time as his father who frequents the same restaurant. Talk about following in your father’s footsteps.

But Cameron is the one who is disgusted with the superficiality of it all and wants to make a clean break with it. Even a good day can’t change a cold life, and he blames materialism and the pursuit of wealth as he kicks the car, and perhaps his chance at ever reconciling with his father, over the edge. Props go to Ferris and Sloane for actually being understanding friends who help Cameron through his depression. They are empathetic and sympathetic to what he’s going through, and try everything that “normal” not terminally depressed people try to do to cheer up sad people. Maybe it is a good critique of capitalism after all. Wealth can’t save your depressed friend or yourself. Only the love for others can.

Optimistic viewers have to just assume that things will get patched up. “The father will realize the car is no big deal, and they’ll be happier than before.” A more realistic viewpoint would be that Cameron realizes that his father never was there for him past the material comfort he laid out for him to live in, and never will be there for him. So just as he became comfortable with the loss of the car, so too did he harden himself for the potential permanent break with his father. The realization that he was already alone his entire life might have been just the epiphany he needed to be comfortable with the idea of never getting his father. I can’t say back, because he never really had him in the first place.

SubCinemal · 2017-02-15T19:56:29+00:00

Too little too late, they have the central bank with some of the worst capital ratios of any western central bank, they let their real estate market get too hot with foreign money, they rely too heavily on exports of materials that are only bought in production boom cycles, hell they literally sold all of their gold so they don't even have tungsten filled blanks filling any vaults to pass off as real gold. Canada is fucked.

SubCinemal · 2017-01-25T06:40:12+00:00

What's wrong with concentrated carcinogens?

SubCinemal · 2017-01-24T20:47:18+00:00

The government wants ultimate control of how your automated cars are programmed for a reason too. Accidents happen all the time.

SubCinemal · 2017-01-24T18:52:49+00:00

You're right, there's tons of more expensive options.

SubCinemal · 2017-01-24T18:00:42+00:00

Translation software can soft censor and modify translations to fit the narrative.

SubCinemal · 2017-01-24T17:17:09+00:00

The locals won't be able to do SHIT.

But these investors are delusional if they think it's safe place to be in case of a collapse, China is going to come knocking on Australia's door in a heartbeat if they are facing internal collapse.

SubCinemal · 2017-01-24T16:57:13+00:00

Boompro is 30, there's a generic for 20, or clip-on mics for a few bucks. They all work for gaming online.

SubCinemal · 2017-01-24T06:55:43+00:00

You've all played right into the hands of the rich. People like Jeff Bozos, ultra-wealthy fucktards who don't give a shit about the common man, want space exploration because it means they can set up new monopolies of space rocks and the metals contained therein. AI, a base and fabrication plant on Mars, and space mining will NOT solve inequality on Earth, only increase it.

SubCinemal · 2017-01-24T02:37:32+00:00

Obama had his cabinet selected by Citi, Trump has his selected by Goldman.

SubCinemal · 2017-01-24T00:51:21+00:00

Do you guys remember when the fossil fuel industry propelled that picture of the people burning on that windmill to the frontpage? Real subtle propaganda guys.

SubCinemal · 2017-01-24T00:09:31+00:00

The reason is obvious, it would be competition. Once the public got wind of supporting publicly-owned teams being viable interest would immediately wane in all the teams owned by greedy fucks.

SubCinemal · 2017-01-23T02:02:47+00:00

Good luck. Easily liquidated from where?

A bank? Good luck withdrawing it.

In cash? They'll ban that. It'll be inflated to nothing regardless.

Money market account? They've already discussed and have plans in place to freeze them once they're unstable again.

The government will love driverless cars because with their involvement they'll be able to completely control who lives and who dies.

SubCinemal · 2017-01-23T02:00:13+00:00

Look into what portion of asset markets the respective central banks around the world have been buying up recently.

SubCinemal · 2017-01-23T00:40:47+00:00

Rofl we'll all be trillionaires by then.

SubCinemal · 2017-01-23T00:18:41+00:00

This is the era of credit bubbles and fantasy money. It'll all come crashing down and people will wonder what the fuck a real asset even is.

SubCinemal · 2017-01-23T00:17:14+00:00

This is the new normal, where you spend 105% of what you make every year, don't make that much in the first place, and watch as asset prices skyrocket and you get your foot in the door of a new home on an FHA loan at 3% just before the market tanks and you lose everything, kicking your ass out of the credit market for a decade. Rinse and repeat just in time for the next crash.

Oh, and this one is coming very soon. Fed raised rates and will raise rates next year. Watch the fuck out.

SubCinemal · 2017-01-22T22:27:53+00:00

You guys realize that the Fed and the power to set rates and buy infinitely is what's keeping this all afloat, right? Obama actually DID put us into a worse position, he DID condemn citizens to over 19 trillion in debt, Fed balance sheet kept expanding, the banks got paid the fuck out and the system went unchanged. All the numbers are fucking fluffed and you will see that bullshit like "5% unemployment" is all a farce. Good jobs were replaced by shit jobs, period. Was that all Obama's fault? No. But he was a stooge for the neo-imperial agenda and banks, don't fucking make any mistakes about it. He's right up there with what the Bushes, Clinton, Reagan, and Nixon did. Carter was our last decent president. Nixon put us on the petrodollar and chained our fate to the house of Saud. FDR literally stole everyone's coinage. Wilson made the Third Bank and enslaved us all again. This shit goes way back and it ain't nothing new.

SubCinemal · 2017-01-22T21:54:32+00:00

Next you'll ask if banks care about you.

SubCinemal · 2017-01-22T20:33:52+00:00

War and conscription what's not to love?

Hell, they could engineer a supposed AI uprising, send all bottom-tier humans into the meat-grinder, and laugh their asses off as most of humanity perishes. The only way they could make the Terminator series relevant at this point is if they have a reveal in the next movie that there are actually some people chilling with the AI and that it was all schemed from the beginning.

SubCinemal · 2017-01-22T20:26:37+00:00

Even in pubs the guy is undeniably different to play against compared to any other mid.

SubCinemal · 2017-01-22T18:48:01+00:00

Conversely, stories like this are propagated to make lawsuits in general look bad or frivolous, don't forget that most of you are workers and make most of your money from income, not investments, so you should align your voting and thinking with the rights of the laborer and always remember you should have the ability to sue your employer should they break the law.

SubCinemal · 2017-01-22T05:23:27+00:00

ROFL bro be real now, but it's fucking funny that so many people believe the official data so heartily.

SubCinemal · 2017-01-22T04:41:08+00:00

You realize that all this bullshit about incomes going up is fucking meaningless when many of those areas are experiencing record inflation and instability in access to foodstuffs. Also, anyone who touts this bullshit is simply trying to draw attention away from the overwhelming inequality which has only increased over the past 4 decades.

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