• Lauchs@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Why, in your estimation, can’t we have a system were people do things because they care about those things and they’re worth doing because they benefit everyone?

    Because I’m not 13 anymore?

    if something is worth having, people will want to have it, which means that some of those people will still choose make/do that thing for their own benefit

    Let’s just think that through in the most basic of necessities, food. Even ignoring the craziness with meat production, we’ll just assume everyone is a vegetarian.

    Mass food production requires several inputs including heavy machinery and fertilizer. Fertilizer requires a bunch of chemical inputs as well as a stunning amount of electricity and heavy industry. Most of it comes from abroad. The heavy machinery similarly requires a lot of fabricated metals, circuitry etc. So at this point, we need people to get together independently to run: several different types of mines for the chemical and metal components, build intricate heavy factories, then ship the results over seas for long distances on the hopes that someone else will do something nice for them eventually.

    Okay, now lets say these inputs get to the fertilizer/farm equipment factories, which other kind people spend time operating again, on the hope that someone will do something nice for them. Cool. Now, those inputs need to get to the farms, which are probably not located next door. So, we need the intricate processes for building trucks, moving those trucks, distributing goods from those trucks and of course roadworks on which to move said trucks.

    And we haven’t even gotten to the hassle of transporting and distributing the food. (“Oh boy, I’ve always wanted a chance to stock groceries!”)

    Another way to think of it, even in a scenario where we have money, we don’t have enough people acting as teachers and nurses, you think people are going to volunteer to give random old people sponge baths for the heck of it?

    This is so silly that it almost feels like you’re trolling.

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      My bad. I didn’t realize I was talking to someone stupid enough to look at the state of the world and still be able to cling to the idea that large-scale industrialism has a viable place in the future of society.

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          1 year ago

          I’m not going to be nice to people who insist on keeping the world a dying, dystopian shithole, and it’s not my job to think for them. If people refuse to take a moral stance in the face of societal destruction, they can go fuck themselves and deserve to be belittled.

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            1 year ago

            You misunderstand me. I don’t care if you’re being silly at me, I’ve been a camp counsellor and had similar children make fun of me, it’s adorable more than anything else.

            I mean you haven’t made a sensible point. I mean, the world as a dystopian shithole? Jesus, how ignorant and privileged can you be? Infant mortality is at an all time low, life expectancies at an all time high, working hours are almost lower than they’ve been in human history, the number of people starving to death is lower than almost ever before in modern history, the number of human slaves is lower than ever before, the percentage of folks dying to war/conflict is lower than ever before. But yes, in your monumental ignorance and privilege, sure it’s worse than ever before because your parents had it slightly easier.

            Almost anyone from almost any point in human history would give their left arm to be you, even if you choose to whine about it like a first world child crying because they didn’t get the latest toy.

            Your silly insults are adorable but also a sad reminder of how fucking myopic and self centered people can be.