• Someone worked out the average westerner effectively has about seventy slaves

    Someone who was trying to make a point about energy consumption in the most offensively stupid way possible, presumably.

  • Someone who was trying to make a point about energy consumption in the most offensively stupid way possible, presumably.

    Or perhaps the point is that some fraction of that seventy are like, near enough to actual slaves, and that the brutality of colonialism never really went away; it's just shifted form to something vastly more insidious.

    It's not just energy consumption, it's the goods the corporations provide to us.

    If you, a well-off westerner, find offense in the suggestion that you're benefiting from the subjugation of many others, then perhaps I can interest you in a subscription to one of Rupert Murdoch's 'news'papers

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