the rest of the paragraph that was cut out in that screenshot literally explains the reasons behind the easter bilby and bluntly theyre minimising the impact that wild rabbits have had as an introduced species in our ecosystem.

the easter bibly was an ingenious campaign that builds in social awareness and change to an ongoing annual tradition without detracting from what that tradition represents. the choice behind it was intentional

saying Australians "don't like bunnies" because of ecological damage is like saying Americans "don't like rabies" because of the health risks. They're a major problem and the Easter Bilby rules.

Rise of the Guardians lied to us 😔 Shameless Aussie Bunny propaganda

We deliberately introduced a virus and tried to built a massive rabbit-proof fence across our country, border wall style, to hold these fuckers back.

The sheer level of ecological damage they cause is incalculable. They're one of the reasons (although to be fair, not the only reason; agriculture is also a big problem) that the bilbies are endangered in the first place.

Australia doesn't have as strong a rural hunting culture as the USA. There are of course hunters, who get their licenses and participate in culls and pay attention to the hunting seasons, but on the whole there are large rural areas where it's not really a thing . EXCEPT for foxes and rabbits. I grew up on a farm and every farmer I knew knew how to shoot, specifically to go out on the weekends with the jack russel terriers and shoot foxes and rabbits. Everyone owned multiple guns and that was literally the only reason. Some of them would keep the fox pelts and a few of them occasionally ate rabbit meat but most of the time they just gave the corpses to the dogs or disposed of them. It wasn't about food and fur, it was a moral duty. Pest control. As much a part of their job as herding sheep or mending fences. An attempt to at least temporarily keep the fuckers back.

Rabbits are a plague on this country and nobody but the most narrowminded city slicker would hesitate to wish every feral rabbit dead. We all wish myxo had worked.

the thing about capitalism is that at a certain point a product reaches its maximum audience and cant really be improved (at least not while remaining profitable), but capitalism requires a product provide infinite growth, and at that point the only way to increase profits is to raise prices, cut corners, and in the case of services start adding advertisements. this is just how the system works.

Rent-seeking is the act of growing one's existing wealth by manipulating the social or political environment without creating new wealth.[1] Rent-seeking activities have negative effects on the rest of society. They result in reduced economic efficiency through misallocation of resources, reduced wealth creation, lost government revenue, heightened income inequality,[2][3] risk of growing political bribery, and potential national decline.

The actual economic term for this parasitic behavior is "Rent Seeking", as in "charging you rent for things that didn't used to cost money just because we can."

"The classic example of rent-seeking, according to Robert Shiller, is that of a property owner who installs a chain across a river that flows through their land and then hires a collector to charge passing boats a fee to lower the chain. There is nothing productive about the chain or the collector, nor do passing boats get anything in return. The owner has made no improvements to the river and is not adding value in any way, directly or indirectly, except for themselves. All they are doing is finding a way to obtain money from something that used to be free."

obtain money links to the wikipedia article for Parasitism which might be the most brutal diss I've ever seen on wikipedia ever

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"He describes her pace as very slow;"
"He takes her medications on her own accord"
Suicidal Ideation: She sometimes has thoughts of ending his life"
/end]

Me when my medical practitioner is a time traveller from 1732