@hingehead,
HH; Seriously... Dave's brain is priceless, and as such the capitalist class feels free to use it like a public toilet and **** all over everything knowing they can charge us later to wash it... But; there is no excuse for the way they treat the world, us, or for their system of values generally...
The Exxon Valdize case made it before the Supreme Court and the court reduced all of awards made to citizens for their losses... What is it to them that little people lost all they had to get their due only to get nothing??? In fact; the case was ours, and some one should have paid for their destruction of the priceless with their lives... Same with the BP oil spill in the Guld of Mexico...
We were all injured, and generations after us will still be injured... Working people lost their lives, and working people lost their livelihoods; but the oil they get for nothing from us other than the cost of drilling it meant nothing to them... They were free to **** on the priceless when they should have all had to die for it...
If they paid for anything at its true price, and if they had to pass that price on to us everything would be expensive enough to make us think... Granted; it would not be fun for any of us if we all had to account for every quart of oil we buy and every quart we spill that every day amounts to an Exxon Valdize disaster...Only the recognition of the damage it does, that capitalism does without revealing the true cost will begin to make things better...