WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat

Re:WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat by prepend on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:36PM (#17526931)

What’s a good way for me to bet you $1000 that you’re wrong? This statement seems so interesting. What’s the basis for this thought process? Isn’t the trend for meat consumption to increase with wealth so as the world develops, more meat will be consumed. [0]

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/meat-and-seafood-production-consu...

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Re:WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat by myWindoonn on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:57PM (#17527133)

There's a site that will help you do this: https://longbets.org/faq/

The downside is that you won't get your money. It'll go to charity. But you'll be able to prove your point to your great-great-grandkids!

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Re:WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat by prepend on Friday July 13, 2018 @06:07PM (#17527253)

It will treat them to either a nice hamburger or veggie burger.

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Re:WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat by dang on Saturday July 14, 2018 @02:07AM (#17529078)

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive comments to Hacker News?

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Re:WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat by hinkley on Friday July 13, 2018 @06:12PM (#17527299)

Are you kidding? With the way things are going and inflation that $1000 won't pay for a hamburger. Maybe a fancy pickle...

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Re:WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat by meowface on Friday July 13, 2018 @06:18PM (#17527350)

I'd be happy to take out a $100 bet, but I would probably want to lean towards the 100 year end of the prediction, and it's unlikely both of us will be alive in 100 years.

>Isn’t the trend for meat consumption to increase with wealth so as the world develops, more meat will be consumed.

Note I said "American companies", not companies around the world. I don't think my prediction will hold when applied to the entire world. I believe that within 200-300 years at the latest, there will be a strong cultural taboo in Western countries around hunting, meat farming, and eating "real meat". I figure synthetic and analogue meat will still be very popular. I don't think meat will be outlawed, but I sincerely think most people will treat meat-eaters like how most people currently treat neo-Nazis.

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Re:WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat by davidivadavid on Friday July 13, 2018 @07:47PM (#17527776)

I eat meat and love it, but I don't think that's an unlikely scenario.

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Re:WeWork Will No Longer Let Employees Expense Any Kind of Meat by vosper on Friday July 13, 2018 @05:40PM (#17526964)

I'll get downvoted for mentioning any crypto-thing, but I think this might be doable with Augur (which is an actual live product, not some crypto-vaporware, though not particularly easy to use in its 1.0 state)

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