Of course per capita matters. That is the only proper comparison method. Yes, when all is said and done the total world volume of emissions counts. However in that total, countries like China and India with more than a billion inhabitants will obviously contribute the biggest share.

You mean, like our countries did for a century-and-a-half? It's all a matter of priorities. Staying alive and moderately healthy is a logical first priority. For many people in those countries, that is about as far as they can get.

So many people keep forgetting that it is US who put those companies in their current luxurious positions.
WE gave them our private data, because WE refuse to pay for anything on the internet.
And it is all of US who have been wanting to believe that the latest high-tech services can be free of charge.

Now, people are angry with those companies, but that is only because it is so human to place the blame outside of yourself.

That last addition was unnecessary.

However you are right, they don't have those billions readily available. Still, it is possible for them to keep control of their companies and transform a good part of that paper wealth into cash.
Giving away a majority of that cash would be a great win for humanity. After all, those people on the Bloomberg list did not earn that money single-handedly, they need many people to do it for them.

They are related in a sense that wealth is distributed ever more unequally.
For each billion gained by one person, there need to exist many underpaid other persons.

Point taken.

Let's rock then, and go to Mars. Surely there we will find a convenient truth. [/sarcasm]

You're so right. Funding COVID-19 vaccine research does not help us at all.

Insanely rich person gets richer. Whatever. While writing this comment, numerous people died because of poverty.

There is a lot to be said about this subject. However the main reason (remote) electronic voting is rarely used is trust.
People need to trust such a system and most people currently do not. Period.

TS did not claim no cases of voter fraud ever, just that in their lengthy stint as election official they have not seen it first-hand.
Indicating, it probably does not happen very often.

If you had worked as a detective with the NYC police department for 30 years and never seen a murder, surely that would mean more than 'shit'.

So, someone who has worked as an election official for a long time and not witnessed fraud first-hand, at least tells us that it is not very common.

Reminds me of that movie "In Time" where they have life timer-displays in their arms....

"the company's massively successful software storefront." Errrr... it's the *only* option for Apple users. This sounds just like Microsoft in the '90s and early '00s doesn't it?

Yes, that and the fact that they can afford all of these huge expenditures in infrastructure and subsidies because they became rich through oil.

Yeeeees, well, have you read the article in the link? I wonder how many people you deem 'stupid' will follow a Flash player update installer prompt after visiting a website. Probably most. Even you.