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I have always wondered how do you do it: How do you fly?
I squirt my way out of the water using my body like a jet and then soar on my fins!
https://phys.org/news/2013-02-bird-plane-squid.html
From the link:
So, what's chasing you?
Other squid.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2101735-deep-sea-squid-cannibals-battle-it-out-in-a-fight-to-the-death/
From the link:
Sounds pretty capitalistic to me.
Do you have a minute to talk about socialism?
Look, I'm all for the squid to control the means of propulsion, but it's hard convincing others...
I'm introducing the theory of an "r-factor" that measures how capitalistic a country is.
r = 0 means pure socialism. Everybody gets the same amount of universal basic income, and earns nothing when they work hard.
r = 1 means pure capitalism. there is no social support programs, and what you earn depends entirely on your labour/wages.
in-between them, there's a linear interpolation.
(i invented that "r-factor" as a thought experiment yesterday, and now i like it.)
i'm for r = 0.5 btw.