i just want to point out that my favorite Percy & Keyleth interaction is when a dragon is flying over the hidden Whitestone and they argue through the whole thing about what to do because they are both terrified and trying to save innocents and Percy sees the home he barely just recovered about to be wiped out of existence and Keyleth wants to lead and act and protect everyone from the incoming danger and they yell at each other and have a horrible stand off…
but as soon as the moment passes and Keyleth tries to apologize, stoic-goth-proper Percy can only say “shut up shut up shut up” as he hugs her with relief because he knows they were both terrified and trying to do the right thing and that she was trying to protect his home just as much as he was.
Updates have since come on this subject; we now know where the goats came from and I gotta tell you, it is better than you could possibly imagine. See.
These goats got loose from a goat rental service.
You may be thinking, who rents a goat? Who rents a hundred goats? What are they for?
They’re for eating.
Specifically, they’re for eating unwanted, flammable vegetation that can contribute to the spread of wildfires. Some people whose property tends to grow such vegetation, keep their own goats. But for some people it works out better to just rent some goats.
So.
These are Professional Eating Goats. They are trained to thoroughly and methodically scour an area of plantlife. And they came to the suburbs.
i don’t know a single fic writer who has asked for their work to be published in an anthology. i don’t know a single fic writer who asked for the cast to read through the archive and feature their favorites, and very few who wanted their work to be read at all. i don’t know a single fic writer who asked to be hired by content creators for their writing.
i do, however, know a lot who would just like to not be treated as the butt of the joke. that’s all.
So you are saying 0% of the world should be billionaires?
Yes.
Why shouldn’t their be billionaires? That makes no sense.
Because the existence of billionaires is predicated on the exploitation of human labor and unsustainable environmental harm. That level of wealth hoarding is harmful to economies, as it reduces the amount of money in circulation. No one person, no family, could ever conceivably even SPEND a billion dollars anyway, and it is inherently immoral to accumulate wealth so narrowly while so much of the world lives in abject poverty.
Better then to create a wealth ceiling, a point at which all wealth over a certain point is taxed at or very near 100% to incentivize people to actually spend their money rather than hoard it, stimulating the economy and bettering the lives of far more people. Better even still to create and regulate economic systems that protect workers and the environment in a way that such extreme levels of wealth accumulation aren’t even feasible.
The problem with this is that it reduces the incentive to actually do fiscally well. What’s the point of starting a business if you can’t become wealthy?
There is a very real difference between “reasonably wealthy” and A BILLIONAIRE
No one is saying you shouldn’t have a nice house, we are saying that having multiple really, really ridiculously nice houses while your employees are either homeless or at serious risk of becoming homeless is immoral.
I’ll never understand why this concept is hard for people. I think it’s because they can’t actually fathom how much $1 Billion is.
Seriously.
Let’s say you have a badass job. A great job. You make $100 AN HOUR. You work 10 hours a day ($1000 A DAY), 5 days a week ($5000 a week!!!), every week ($20,000 A MONTH), thats $240,000 Every Year.
It would take you 4,167 years to make a billion dollars.
Overdressed & Underappreciated 