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Shout out to the oil, meat, and shipping industries (lemmy.world)
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[-] Mubelotix@jlai.lu 19 points 2 years ago

If only we had deflation people would not overconsume so much

[-] philm@programming.dev 16 points 2 years ago

bu... buut economic growth > everything else ...?

[-] veganpizza69@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

How else are they supposed to assuage the feeling that they're not some immortal magical beings living some divine simulation/game as the chosen ~~ones~~ players?

[-] jaanus20@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

We can't deflate form 8 billion people and counting

[-] flop@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Malthus was wrong about this too. It's not the population that's a problem, it's miles of strip malls, filled with cheap trash, and meat and dairy every meal of the day.

[-] Beliriel@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

And why are those being built? Because the consumer population doesn't care and continues consuming the cheapest dirtiest shit imaginable.

[-] flop@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Okay? That doesn't change the fact that it's the lifestyle of people in rich countries, not the number of people that is the problem.

[-] thank_me_its_friday@feddit.de 0 points 2 years ago

Germany tried it once ... I mean twice

[-] Koordinator_O@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Don't forget about the Chinese. They tried too and they were much more efficient.

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