I don’t know about you but I’m sure glad the chief exec of Shell cares about our futures…

The world’s need for fossil fuels is “desperate”, Shell’s chief executive told the BBC.

  • Coskii
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    71 year ago

    Need hasn’t been a factor for these types of people ever. It’s not about amount in terms of survival, it’s a high score system. Earn more than the one who came before you, gain over other companies, get noted in some top # company scoreboard.

    The entire system is set up to award this aggressive, destructive behavior as success. The largest change in recent times is the numbers getting so massive that it takes the most destructive and cutthroat policies to even get close to out doing those who came before.

    • NiOP
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      51 year ago

      I intellectually understand the concept but personally cannot grasp it. The rise of the billionaire and the staggering record profits of some of these companies is just beyond the pale.

      • deeoh
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        51 year ago

        And that’s exactly why you’d never be a billionaire, it requires you to embrace that concept. It’s disgusting.

        • NiOP
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          31 year ago

          Hah, billionaires are an immoral concept in general. Should never have existed

          • Coskii
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            111 months ago

            It’s a bit of a tangent, but it’s also a good showing of mindset understanding. When the game Phantasy Star Online 2 was released in the “West” a few years ago, I played it with many friends. One of those friends became obsessed with accumulating in game currency and made it a goal. Many months later and enough real money spent to be life changing and not in the good way, they accomplished the goal of 1 billion currency. I wasn’t directly involved in anything dealing with that situation, but I had heard they had made it.

            Not knowing the gossip had been spread around, that player asked me what I would do if I ever had 1 billion myself. The answer I gave was that I’d stop playing the game. I do not save money in the game long term. It’s there to be used (usually on market cosmetics so my character can wear a fancy hat)… but if I ever got the point where I had saved 1 billion, that would mean that the smaller goals of things I wanted to grab would be extinguished, and while being fashionable isn’t the main draw of the game, it is a major point for me. They responded with a bit of an “oh” and left. I don’t know what ever happened to that player, but I do hope they recovered from their billionaire curse.

            Unless it’s a lump sum lottery type situation, I don’t think most people would ever save enough even if they had the means to do so to have a billion dollars. The only way it happens is when the goal is focused purely on “make money” with no actual goal for that money.