• PatFusty@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    I hate this elitist sentiment. 😒

    Strong “i got mine so fuck you” type of mentality.

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      11 months ago

      It’s too late for sentiments, my friend. We are not the winners of this game, but we might all be losers if we don’t reduce our habits of reckless consumption.

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        11 months ago

        Yes, i have the same sentiment. I have been calling for everyone to accept higher taxes for years. Garnish wages, let the extreme wealth gap grow wider. If everyone is poor then we dont have to worry about what shiny thing to buy as long as we can get that dog meat on the table.

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            11 months ago

            SO TRUE! My malnutrition living in central america has stunted my growth but if I lived on the plentiful acid you provide then some day my progeny can grow big and strong like yourself.

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              11 months ago

              staying fed has always been a problem in central and south america. you can’t grow big crops without wiping out large swaths of rain forest. stop cutting down rain forests. stop following catholic traditions that encourage large families. ya’ll should be having way less kids. the ecosystem just can’t support large populations. you’d be better off going back to living in small units dependent on hunting and fishing.

              sorry bro. that’s just how life works. you really don’t want what america has. cherish what you have.

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      11 months ago

      A degrowth society has to be an equitable society. Otherwise your criticism is entirely valid.

      We are going to have a degrowth system regardless of any policy decisions, as the current growth system is burning through critical resources and destroying the environment. We can either plan for this, or we can have an unplanned existential civilizational crisis.

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        11 months ago

        Degrowth for the west, let the rest of the world suffer yeaaaaaa. Everyone knows only the west matters anyways.

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          11 months ago

          We need equalization, which means drastic cuts for the west and massive leaps for the developing world.