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Comment Short answer (Score 1) 851

You *need* food, water, shelter, air, and social interaction. Smart-phones, and anything else not on the list, are wants. Anything else, no matter how useful or important it is to you, is a want.

Comment Re:77,000 years? Bah! (Score 5, Informative) 102

They have revised the date a bit. Sextus Julius put it at 5500 BC, while the current estimates, based on the Masoritic text of the Tanakh, are all around 4000 BC. (This also conveniently pushed the date sextus picked for the apocalypse (6000 years after creation) up by about 1500 years.)

Must've been a confusing time for the Sumerians. http://www.theonion.com/articles/sumerians-look-on-in-confusion-as-god-creates-worl,2879/

Comment Re:Need (Score 1) 631

Small, independent companies innovate, but they're still operating on a top-down model. That means they still contain the seeds of giant megacorporations. Google, Amazon, and Apple stated as "small independent companies", and they took advantage of their employees' innovative ideas to become giant monopolies. What we *really*need are more worker and customer-owned co-operatives. We need to make businesses that spread wealth around, not businesses that focus wealth in the hands of a few people.

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