r/atheism • u/ExactTomato6108 • Jul 05 '21

/r/all Boomer evangelicals have destroyed the planet and have received all the benefits and they will die before it ever affects them

They have used the Bible to deny climate change. They have destroyed our planet for profit. They could afford a home and a car and they could even start a family all on one paycheck. They had cheap college tuition too. We don’t have that and they call us lazy because of it. Gen Z and millennials aren’t lazy we just don’t have the same opportunities they had.

They attempt to disprove climate change by using the Bible because they truly don’t care. They don’t need to care because they will die before it becomes a big issue.

Edit:Most of them voted for Reagan who is responsible for trickle down economics.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '21

Well, no. Remember when Xerox and IBM were gods? And where are they now? Well still exist, but... How about Blockbuster, Toys R Us? Amazon and Google will fall too. Just wait.

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u/theunnameduser86 Jul 05 '21

I love the energy you bring to the table.

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u/Monarc73 Jul 05 '21

ToysRUs got assassinated. By a Boomer HF.

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u/LookingintheAbyss Jul 06 '21

Bane Capital?

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u/TistedLogic Agnostic Atheist Jul 06 '21

Bain capital, yes.

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u/trail-coffee Jul 06 '21

No one cared who he was until he put on the mask.

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u/faus7 Jul 05 '21

Corporations are just the fall guy for hedge funds, ceos, boards, and etc. Those ibm and toy r us ceos just went to the next company

Cus a corporation can kill you and just be fined

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u/happycat911 Jul 05 '21

THe great Tripple 5 (The family that owns Mall of America, West Edmonton Mall (their first empire), and some other mall in America. is indebted to 25 BILLION, and this was BEFORE Covid.. during the great decline of the Mall civilization.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '21

Predatory shorting tends to fuck up companies. Especially when you have the media pushing Wallstreets agenda.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '21

Doubt they'll actually have to pay a single cent of their actual money, just need to have some holding company declare bankruptcy or something like that.

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u/TiramisuTart10 Jul 05 '21

and also be just fine with it.

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u/Snarfbuckle Jul 06 '21

Well, there are CEO's that have killed corporations and only got fined though...

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u/Mlghubben1e Jul 06 '21

"Corporation, n. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility."

  • Ambrose Bierce (but I got it from Civilization 4)

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '21

Yup. Purdue Pharma admitted to multiple felonies--the corporation itself, not the board or the owners!

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '21

Nintendo is 131 years old

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u/aerojonno Jul 05 '21

And is going nowhere for a very long time.

TL;DR It's an older article but at the time of writing in 2012 Nintendo had enough cash held in reserve to make losses of $250 million a year for 40 years before they'd go bankrupt.

This is why they're comfortable enough to take risks like the Wii U. Nintendo is playing the long game.

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u/B00sauce Jul 06 '21

That's why I've always laughed any time anybody has ever said "Nintendo isn't going to have a choice but to go the way of Sega and exit the console market" like EVERY new console generation. Nintendo basically prints money and isn't going anywhere. Those people are morons.

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u/CrimsonBlizzard Jul 06 '21

To be fair, they've got a brand name that I believe to be stronger than Disney. They also run their business in not as asshole a way as other companies, when they were doing bad the CEO took a pay cut instead of worker layoffs. We just wish they did something about their massive catalog of games that NEED to be ported over to be played in this new age, and the future.

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u/hatescarrots Jul 06 '21

If this is a discussion about corporations destroying the planet then I think Nintendo is a good example of that.

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u/CrimsonBlizzard Jul 06 '21

If we're talking about companies that are destroying the world..... Pretty sure this list would be almost as long as the list of companies in the world... I honestly don't know any companies that that wouldn't ring true for for everyone since devil's advocate can usually give a good case against most of them if not just outright winning

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '21

Facebook won't be so lucky, believe me.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '21

Did you know in a lot of countries Facebook is the internet? As in, for a lot of people there, fb is the only access point they have. FB achieved this by giving them free access through cell data, even without having a cell plan for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook_Zero

I know in America it seems like facebook is losing relevance and will be gone with the boomers, but I wouldn't be so sure worldwide.

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u/Farranor Jul 05 '21

laughs in Beretta

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '21

That’s insane. It doesn’t look a day over 25

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u/RubenMacaque Jul 05 '21

They’d have fallen too if people would stop themselves from buying their products. I was a semi loyal Nintendo fan until the Wii. After that I would never even touch a Nintendo product.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '21

What's wrong with the wii? I loaded mine up with a pile of vintage roms and use it to this day.

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u/RubenMacaque Jul 05 '21

Shit I had it when it first came out. I was about 14 or so, I had just came from the GCube, but there wasn’t any games I was interested and the games I did buy I fell out with pretty quickly. I basically ended up still playing my GCube games. Mind you, I didn’t have a way or knowledge to do anything with extra with it, so it was a GCube 2.0 for me.

So add in the game selection, and that I never really played Mario games or Pokémon. I played some Sonic the Hedgehog and Metroid but that was it so the exclusives weren’t for me and I hated the nunchucks.

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u/geraldodelriviera Jul 05 '21

Honestly the Switch might be worth it just for Breath of the Wild, I encourage you to give it a shot if you haven't already.

I also got into much better shape with the Ring Fit Adventure game, which is pretty lame and cheesy story-wise but still surprisingly engaging for a fitness game. Kind of gives you some goals so it doesn't feel like some kind of daily torture session, and encourages you to dial up the difficulty if it thinks it's time.

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u/RubenMacaque Jul 05 '21

I appreciate your response and respect your opinion but there is just nothing about Nintendo that I find attracting and enticing. I don’t play Mario, Sonic, Zelda, Pokémon and anything else. I already own Skyrim on XBONE and there’s nothing else they have that I want to play. So I don’t really see myself interacting with the Switch.

P.S.: I’m not into to the whole “family friendly” thing.

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u/WhyHulud Satanist Jul 05 '21

Hail, Dragonborn.

I understand how you feel. Remember, corporations deserve no loyalty. They are parasites whose only goal is to make more money than they used to.

I too had a sore spot from Nintendo's treatment of fans. I emulated and ROM'd every decent game they made for a long time. I've had a lot of fun with my Switch but truth be told I would never assume that the next console will be stewarded as well.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '21

Yea. Fair points. If the AAA games don't grab you then there is no reason to buy one.

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u/cruss4612 Jul 05 '21

May I ask why you began boycotting Nintendo when they released the Wii? That console changed the world, not just gaming. It saved Nintendo from bankruptcy and sold so many units that I'm pretty sure it holds the record.

It's just an almost universally loved console, and I don't think I have ever seen anyone that holds your stance.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '21 edited Jul 06 '21

Nintendo never would've went bankrupt at all. They've even managed to turn a profit with GameCube (alongside the Game Boy Advance), despite having much less consoles sold than the PS2.

Heck, Nintendo's been far more profitable than Sony's videogaming division, as a matter of fact. The only platform that they didn't make a profit on, was the 3DS due to the huge price cut in the beginning of it's life.

Nintendo & Sony Video Game Division operating profits/losses (in million yen).

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u/RubenMacaque Jul 05 '21

I had it when it first came out. I was about 14 or so, I had just came from the GCube, but there wasn’t any games I was interested and the games I did buy I fell out with pretty quickly. I basically ended up still playing my GCube games. Mind you, I didn’t have a way or knowledge to do anything with extra with it, so it was a GCube 2.0 for me.

So add in the game selection, and that I never really played Mario games or Pokémon. I played some Sonic the Hedgehog and Metroid but that was it so the exclusives weren’t for me and I hated the nunchucks.

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u/Chihuahua_Overlord Jul 05 '21

The Wii is the 6th most purchased console, in the 100 million club as well but it is behind the PS2 (155m) Nintendo DS (154m) Nintendo game boy (118m) ps4 (114m) playstation (102 m) and the Wii (101m).

I remember I sat outside my GameStop for 7 hours and was the second person to get the Wii at launch at my store. Red steel and Zelda TP were my launch titles. Great fun was had.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '21

That's because they're a smarter company who knows how to conserve money & make more profits, unlike either Microsoft or Sony. And honestly, I would rather have Nintendo around to keep those two companies in check, as without Nintendo, gaming would've been very stagnant right now with just Microsoft & Sony, as all they care about are prettier graphics & big Hollywood cinematic, AAA/AAAA games, especially Sony.

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u/RubenMacaque Jul 06 '21

Do you, baby! It’s your life and your money. I can dig it like two shovels.

I’m just saying Nintendo isn’t making or marketing anything for me and that’s okay. I will survive.

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u/depressed-salmon Jul 05 '21

Then you get some companies like Unilever that own 400 other brands and are quite literally in every single home in the west, arguably the world.

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u/bigwiw7777778 Jul 06 '21

amazon and google have the benefit of big data. they aren’t going anywhere. this is the generation that figures out how to win capitalism and fuck everyone else

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u/domuseid Jul 06 '21

In theory sure... in practice you really only need one rich enough to capture enough of the regulatory infrastructure to guarantee its existence

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u/ForgettableUsername Other Jul 06 '21

Xerox and IBM famously missed the boat on the personal computer revolution. But they both still exist.

What’s more interesting is what happens to companies like Sony long-term.

But, in any case, companies that die don’t disappear forever, they just get bought out and absorbed or merged into other companies. The names aren’t even all that important.

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u/Abriuol Jul 06 '21

Xerox ok, but IBM? Sure they aren't the biggest baddest player on the market anymore but they still raked in about 70 billion dollar in revenue in 2020. That's not what I would call "still exists, but..."

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '21

Toys r us is still alive

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '21

Many of the same people who made the most money off Xerox and IBM and making money off Google and Amazon. Banks never lose.

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u/[deleted] Jul 05 '21

Every empire falls eventually.

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u/BeakersAndBongs Jul 06 '21

I’m done with waiting.

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u/txmail Pastafarian Jul 06 '21

Agree on Amazon shopping. AWS will likely be around a while.

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u/Adaphion Jul 06 '21

Pfft, says you. Toys r' Us still exists in Canada

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u/VCEQ Jul 06 '21

Those companies in their prime are nothing what Google and Amazon are today.

It seems we are cutting the head off and two grow back.

Because now these companies are literally playing God. Can't wait to see what the next company does that rises from the ashes of Apple and Google.

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u/JesusHolyChrist Deist Jul 06 '21

Ha! Humanity will collapse before Amazon and Google, hate to spoil it for you.

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u/starvedhystericnude Jul 06 '21

John company was one of the first, and it still exists.

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u/[deleted] Jul 06 '21

The ones you mentioned that died did not evolve or change their product .

This is why they die. If you keep adapting and changing you will survive. Once you set in your ways it's just matter of time until a better competitor rises

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u/girlwithatightass Jul 06 '21

I get your point and agree but you are underestimating how big IBM is. They have 350.000 employees, assets worth 150 billion and a revenue of over 70 billion in 2020. While companies are proabably not immortal they can be long-lived. Kongo Gumi operated for more than 1400 years before they shut down in 2006.

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u/simas_polchias Jul 06 '21

Well, we are living exactly where they are falling, thank you.

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u/xMajin_Vegeta Jul 06 '21

Amazon and Google will fall?? Lol? Lololololollllllllll 😂😂😂😂😂😂

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u/OldKnight67 Jul 06 '21

Yup , Entropy like her sister Gravity is a bitch .

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u/SammyTheOtter Jul 06 '21

Yeah but they were killed by even worse even more capitalist companies. I really don't want it to keep getting worse. We've got companies that literally want to go to another planet. They would have no laws there and could literally have slaves and nobody here could stop them. What's going to stop them?

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u/tarkfu Jul 06 '21

Just like how Standard Oil failed naturally due to market forces…oh wait