Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is developing border surveillance technology

Re:Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is developing border surveil... by panic on Monday June 05, 2017 @04:36AM (#14486095)

I have never understood why people think that if someone has something means they don't need more of it.

Because almost everything in life works this way. Once I have a place to live, I don't need to find a second one. Once I've eaten enough food to be full, I don't need to keep eating. Maybe by buying enough clothes you can avoid doing laundry, though…

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Re:Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is developing border surveil... by ionised on Monday June 05, 2017 @06:08AM (#14486425)

Because almost everything in life works this way. Once I have a place to live, I don't need to find a second one. Once I've eaten enough food to be full, I don't need to keep eating.

Except that's not how it works, at all.

Overweight people are overweight because they eat when they don't need to.

People with money pursue ever greater amounts of it.

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Re:Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is developing border surveil... by some1else on Monday June 05, 2017 @07:15AM (#14486718)

I think the causality you were trying to invoke goes "If you eat more than you need, you could become overweight." As such, it describes ways people can become overweight, not the cause for obesity or food cravings.

People are overweight for reasons other than "eating too much," just as drug addicts relapse for reasons other than "trying meth once." I'm actually comfortable thinking about greed as a symptom of a disconnected world view as well. Just one that none of the afflicted are inclined to treat.

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Re:Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is developing border surveil... by wand3r on Monday June 05, 2017 @09:14AM (#14487345)

Sure, I'm not parent but still agree. You are right with your analysis but parent is right as well. There are a lot of overweight people. Have a house? Everyone wants a nicer one. Ca

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Re:Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is developing border surveil... by awinder on Monday June 05, 2017 @09:59AM (#14487597)

> Overweight people are overweight because they eat when they don't need to

That's a massive over-simplification, but by the same token, okay? We've now established that over-accumulation of wealth is comparable to an eating / mental disorder? Has anyone looked into treating this disorder?

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Re:Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is developing border surveil... by wadeboggs on Monday June 05, 2017 @10:26AM (#14487801)

Yeah but who would fund the research.

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Re:Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is developing border surveil... by jackmott on Monday June 05, 2017 @09:13AM (#14487333)

So you are making connections between gluttony and greed then?

Innovative!

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Re:Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is developing border surveil... by jacobush on Monday June 05, 2017 @05:07AM (#14486201)

Buying clothes to protect you from the elements, are you? Many people buy them for entirely different reasons, like signaling social status and other things. Even if you do this very conservatively, you need to keep up because fashions change and what your dress signaled last year is not what it signals this. Sheesh.

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Re:Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is developing border surveil... by thisisit on Monday June 05, 2017 @08:00AM (#14486961)

My bad. I should have phrased it better.

What I meant is money is one commodity where even the super rich wants more, not less. Just because they have a lot of money doesn't mean they stop caring about it.

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