A 2016 Pentagon training video described how the military will need to respond to the “emerging complexity” of urban areas that will be experiencing widespread poverty and the effects of climate change in the coming years. “Megacities are complex systems where people and structures are compressed together in ways that defy both our understanding of city planning and military doctrine,” says the video’s narrator. “These are the future breeding grounds, incubators, and launching pads for adversaries and hybrid threats.” ... The document says that in order to overcome these uprisings from the underclass, the slums themselves will have to be targeted on a large and indiscriminate scale
The U.S. isn’t just becoming more like a Third World country-it’s worse than that
https://medium.com/@rainershea612/the-u-s-isnt-just-becoming-more-like-a-third-world-country-it-s-worse-than-that-a8e1ba95d593
The U.S. isn’t just becoming more like a Third World country-it’s worse than that
https://medium.com/@rainershea612/the-u-s-isnt-just-becoming-more-like-a-third-world-country-it-s-worse-than-that-a8e1ba95d593
Medium
The U.S. isn’t just becoming more like a Third World country-it’s worse than that
Existing on a level of poverty and marginalization that’s in many cases more severe than that which can be found in the Third World, there…
Musk did not have a regular childhood, but rather a wealthy upbringing in apartheid South Africa. His father was an engineer and owned part of an emerald mine in Zambia, telling Business Insider, “We were very wealthy. We had so much money at times we couldn’t even close our safe.” In Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, Ashlee Vance describes how Musk got money from his father when he was starting one of his original ventures. He also had a particular admiration for his grandfather, who moved to apartheid South Africa from Canada after rallying “against government interference in the lives of individuals.”
Bezos has a not dissimilar story. His father was a well-off oil engineer in Cuba while Fulgencio Batista was in power. In Bit Tyrants, Rob Larson explains that Bezos’s father left the island after the Cuban Revolution and passed his libertarian views down to his son. Bezos’s parents invested nearly $250,000 in Amazon in 1995 as it was getting started.
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/06/spacex-elon-musk-jeff-bezos-capitalism/
Bezos has a not dissimilar story. His father was a well-off oil engineer in Cuba while Fulgencio Batista was in power. In Bit Tyrants, Rob Larson explains that Bezos’s father left the island after the Cuban Revolution and passed his libertarian views down to his son. Bezos’s parents invested nearly $250,000 in Amazon in 1995 as it was getting started.
https://jacobinmag.com/2020/06/spacex-elon-musk-jeff-bezos-capitalism/
Jacobinmag
Yes to Space Exploration. No to Space Capitalism.
Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk have a vision of space that serves the narrow interests of
capitalists. But we don’t want to be indentured servants on a Martian colony — we want solar
exploration that benefits humanity as a whole.
capitalists. But we don’t want to be indentured servants on a Martian colony — we want solar
exploration that benefits humanity as a whole.