I can't believe that David Bowie is dead.

When your enjoyment of a thing depends significantly on the inability of other people to enjoy that thing, you probably need psychiatric help and shouldn't be allowed to implement policy regarding that thing.

The Law of Equivalent Exchange in "Full Metal Alchemist" is really just a reformulation of the First Law of Thermodynamics: matter or energy cannot be created or destroyed. Everything has a price. You cannot create something from nothing. This often leads to the facile interpretation that life is a zero sum game, where one person's loss is another person's gain, and vice-versa.

"gotta grease the wheels of the economy to keep it running"
my communist sister declaimed sarcastically as she bought
that new outfit with money that she didn't have
earned from the job that she hadn't been offerred
the paycheck that she wasn't given for the 4 hours of work she did each day
putting it on in full view of the banner of che guevarra
hanging on her bedroom wall