MrMakabar

Ethiopians are not Arabs. Arabic Jews experience much less racism in Israel then Ethiopian ones.

Amendment II

You get wealthy by taking valueables from other people. Turns out the best way to do that is by force, cheating, lies, stealing and the like. When you look at any billionaire, who did not inherite, you find they all do that.

Too poor to afford a helicopter....

NYC could just ban cars in those parts of the city instead.

Indeed. The air war has to be won first, before paratroopers are deployed.

Hunter gatheres did work about 20h per week to survive. That is also why hunter gatheres were able to commit quite a few resources to things like art. We do see rock paintings pretty much all over the world. Totem poles in the Pacific Northwest come from hunter gatherer socities and a lot of other cultures have created similar works. To be fair most of the time they just hang out, which seems to be rather human.

Throughout most of human history economic growth was nearly not a thing on a global scale. Obviously some cities, states and individuals ended up with economic growth, but not even close to what we saw in the last two centuries. Before that with hunter gatherers it was basically economic stagnation for thousands of years.

Most personal growth is really about gaining status within the group. In our society it is mainly about making more money. However there are also a lot of paths, which have much less to do with money. Artists gain fame from their art, politicans from the position in the political hierachy and scientists from the discoveries they made. All of that is also status in the group and could replace a lot of wealth.

An App Meta bought and turned into Facebook Massenger.

The reason I made that comparison is to show the massive scale China is rolling out coal today. Looking at the IEA link you shared we are talking about 1.5-2% of global emission increase due to China permitting those plants. If they are not planning to use them, then why built them in the first place.

Europe has a 10 times bigger economy than Russia, but Russia still manage to outspend Europe on military.

In GDP terms the EU has a 10 times larger economy, but in GDP adjusted for purchasing power it is only 4 times larger. In absolute terms EU military spending is higher then that of Russia, but it is about the same, when adjusting for purchasing power.

In 2023 60.5% of China's electricity was produced by coal power plants.

In 2024, 66.7 GW of new coal power capacity was permitted

Just to compare the EU has 87.6GW of coal power plants in operation in 2024. So China just permitted 76% of the EUs total capacity in coal power plants within a single year.