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[–] [email protected] 51 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

You don't NEED anything besides air, water, sufficient nutrition, and protection from extreme environments.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 11 months ago (1 children)

My 5 year-old nephew told me yesterday that he needs a new Pokemon. Can you add that to the list? He really needed it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

Nobody expects the Maslow Inquisition! Amongst our needs are..

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

All but one of which are made expensive through artificial scarcity so that rich leeches can leech some more. And they're selling air too, just haven't found a way to legally limit access to it yet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They can't sell it, but they can pollute air and then sell you "time off" on the clean air of their resorts, which is good enough

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

They can and do literally sell air. Because why leave money on the table, as exploiters are fond of saying 🤬

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago

They didn't even bother to make it canned. Reality is truly worse than fiction.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago

Maslow would disagree.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago

Hey, Texas ruled you don’t need electricity either.