Episode 6: When will the Billionaires Save Us Already?

05/08/20 • 27 min

This is a 'lite' episode which I'm tentatively calling Bite Sized Enclave where I tackle a single question that's been bugging me lately or responding to something that came up in an earlier episode. It's a little bit of train of thought, not edited down, just me and the microphone.

I wonder why we can't have wealthy eccentrics like Teddy Roosevelt and how much we need someone like him and the ultra-wealthy to save our planet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt
Jeff Bezos' 10,000 year clock (I thought it was 1000 years)
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/2/20/17031836/jeff-bezos-clock-10000-year-cost

I wonder why we can't have wealthy eccentrics like Teddy Roosevelt and how much we need someone like him and the ultra-wealthy to save our planet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Roosevelt
Jeff Bezos' 10,000 year clock (I thought it was 1000 years)
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2018/2/20/17031836/jeff-bezos-clock-10000-year-cost

Previous Episode

Episode 5: Mechanical Futures

Jean-Virgile Laprise joins me to talk about 3d Printing and his business, Canadian/American politics in the current climate, automation and the future of Artificial Intelligence.

This episode runs the longest of the Enclave discussions, I hope you enjoy!

Here are some references and news links that we cover:

M3 Studios: Jean's terrain company

https://www.facebook.com/M3gamingstudios/?eid=ARAF9s9TkikHAb_pTW33VXcR6RlDVcnj0xHIggKHQrSJM0s5BqYVa0kHCI4eC6geyxKW60adGJMmv2oz&fref=tag

3d Printing: Latest news per Google

https://www.google.com/search?q=3d+printing&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS857US857&sxsrf=ALeKk03eY9jqgBnhwHIfgEHLI92numtL9A:1588572166127&source=lnms&tbm=nws&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjGvqW9xJnpAhVfJTQIHYQbBfsQ_AUoAXoECBsQAw&biw=1429&bih=770

Quebec's independence

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

Corporate/Capitalist Opportunism

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

XFL: Bankruptsy

https://www.espn.com/xfl/story/_/id/29030763/xfl-files-chapter-11-bankruptcy-suspending-operations

United States Cuts WHO Funding:

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/04/trump-cuts-world-health-organization-funding-in-a-pandemic.html

Canadian Oil Prospects and the Native Canada Population latest news:

https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/04/20/gas-pipeline-wetsuweten-coronavirus-pandemic-indigenous-sovereignty-canada-oil/

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Episode 7: Dying for the Economy

Another, smaller, Enclave episode with personal musings on the recently adopted notion of "Dying for the Economy".
"A Healed Femur": I recalled a renown anthropologist, Margaret Mead, and her notion that the first signs of civilization was the healed femur and how that indicated that there was a society around the wounded person to bring them back to health.

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