CheeseNoodle

To be fair I can make a 3D printer work more easily and for longer without any maintenance than a regular ass printer. I get that inkjets are actually super complex but bro there are now cases where it is literally easier to make a thing than to print out a picture of that thing.

Thats gotta be some organized crime thing, I mean the essence of a casino is convincing a bunch of people to gamble in a way where its possible that none of them win in which case you get all the money.

The UK already had its own epstein island moment with a child sex traficking scandal involving british parliment, it vanished inside a week.

Well the Russia report described russian money as not just accepted but 'welcomed with open arms' in the UK so really this is just russian ship in the waters of the country they purchased.

Fair enough but I think the good of humanity should be taken broadly. First of all any kind of primary production is basically the base of the pyramid for everything else, if you make art or entertainment thats anything less than 100% cynical in nature you're contributing a tiny amount to the general wellbeing of a huge number of people. Really anyone that makes or provides anything people enjoy in some way. I'd say it includes basically everyone except the many layers of superfluous management.

How about faces the same punishment someone that isn't an incredibly rich corporation would face? If that's insurance then sure, if thats jail time then yes someoen should be punished just like anyone else would.

It outright says:
"13% of non-winners switch to favour the right-wing. By contrast, nearly 18% of the winners who get more than 500 pounds switch to the right-wing party"
That is a description of induviduals, 18% of people become more right wing, not 100% of people become 18% more right wing.

So I read the study, first of all the paper aknowledges that there's a several point swing in voting preference between non winners and people who won less than £500 which strongly implies people who play the lottery are more likely to vote right wing to begin with. Secondly even for large wins the swing was only around 18%. At worst money does not make everyone a bad person, more like 1/5 people.

I think you mean episode 2 expansion 1.

Or those were previously just assholes without money? Nice people who win the lottery likely don't stay rich for long because they use that money to help people they know.

Does money reduce empathy or is lack of empathy just a serious advantage in acumulating money?

modern sociological research or... basic common senses? It doesn't take a genius to figure out that if you start with 10x as much money as everyone else in a game of monopoly you're almost certainly going to win that game.