slothlikesamwise
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Material wealth can be positive sum because we can add to it in discrete components.
Social status is innately relative, and as a function of that is innately zero sum. The lower classes have more absolute wealth than they did in 1800, but they don't have more status.
Add ocean fertilization
Ocean fertilization relies on capture in the shells of diatoms as carbonate, which is much more of a stretch than presented.
Bird flu remains mostly a threat for chicken flocks, birds are very different from mammals and don't have as good a history of mutation to affect humans like pigs do.
There is also a variant of Ebola in swine that is hypothesized to have an airborne transmission, which is fun.
It is still mostly about food prices tho.
Meanwhile the US has to fight a bunch of wars in the middle east and compete with China.
And Russia doesn't have the same issue? They are in the Syrian conflict and countless brushfire conflicts in africa on the GDP of Italy.
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... Who are you arguing with?
Visa and MasterCard see pornography as high risk because they get a lot of chargebacks, so they charge adult services producers a much higher rate for payment processing.
Movement to the high risk list has certainly been used politically in the past, but this is pretty standard.
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