Capitalists don’t care about making quality products/services.

They care about squeezing more profit out of you as time goes on.

if droids Spez could think, there’d be none of us here.

We’ll just have to see, won’t we?

Plus, it’s not like the climate will just snap back into place when the boomers are finally too old for their skeleton talons to cling to power. That shit is going to take generations of sacrifice to roll back, if it doesn’t topple civilization first.

https://www.noaa.gov/news-release/warmest-arctic-summer-on-record-is-evidence-of-accelerating-climate-change

The whole ethos of the majority of baby boomers seems to have been to raze the forest they got to enjoy behind them (as opposed to planting trees whose shade they’d never sit in like most generations aspire to), and they seem to be having remarkable success in that.

Madonna - Born 1958

Keanu - Born 1964 so boomer of the cutoff year.

It’s not my countdown clock, but all the images they chose are of the baby boomer generation, chronologically.

If we gave people who don’t want to be here anymore access to safe, effective, painless, suicide, desperate people wouldn’t have to resort to desperate methods of opportunity that can harm others.

We aren’t willing to be a society. We could not be more clear on that point. Visit one of your local tent cities where we leave defective capital batteries to die of exposure and police harassment if you’re still hazy on this fact. We aren’t willing to help the struggling in anything but empty rhetoric about how, lol, compassionate we consider ourselves. The least we could do is offer an out that doesn’t cause a scene or externalized death. Hell, turn it into an industry let our capitalist owners profit more off of it, win/win.

Inb4 “this bastard tried to kill others, they deserve no mercy!” yeah, when you’re suicidal, you aren’t exactly able to think outside your own pain, even more reason not to continue to let death by gun purchase be the current gold standard of American suicide.

Humanity is doomed in the short term by its own hand, and that is the absolute best fucking thing that can happen for the planet and the other life on it medium to long term.

We appear to be a self-solving blight upon the natural world. As the late, great George Carlin put it, the planet is ramping up to “shake us off like a bad case of fleas. A surface nuisance.”

As a species, we’ve proven beyond all doubt that we are too malicious to be stewards of this world, and too self-important to ever peacefully recede in numbers in order to find equilibrium with this world as inhabitants, rather than have dominion over it.

Our macro-cancer ass of a species has got to go.