naked capitalism

dearieme says:

It’s cruel of you to post an antidote that shows Goldman Sachs and its little placemen, raptors all.

MyLessThanPrimeBeef says:

A simple 2-step solution to the tuna problme and other food related environmental problems:

1) Stablize the current human popultion size (thinking about reduction will only lead to very inhuman ideas).

2) Produce shorter and thinner humans. Why? Less food consumption. We are making progress on the ‘thin’ front. So, we have to make it socially glamorous, politically advantageous and economically favorable for shorter people to reproduce – this doesn’t benefit me personally but we are talking about altrustic ideals here. So, basically we have stigmatize basketball or tall runway models, etc.

Moopheus says:

To Martin: Yes, they want the houses moved. Chicago isn’t the first place to try this. One of the older suburbs around here was trying to save some older houses–at the height of the bubble–that were at risk of demolition and replacement by McMansions by practically giving them away with the same conditions. The cost of moving a house can range anywhere from a few thousand dollars to tens of thousands. It depends on the size of the house, how far it is going, and whether obstacles (such as power lines and that sort of thing) have to be moved. Sometimes the houses are actually worth more disassembled and sold for architectural salvage. Personally, I like old houses–the house I live in now was built in 1868, and we had one before that that was built in 1783, so I always find it funny when someone says that a 30-year-old house is “old.”