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[-] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

"how dare u criticize slavery when u eat the food the master gives u sleep in the barracks the master owns and works the masters fields u have no legs to stand on"

[-] [email protected] -4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It’s a good meme, but in all seriousness, why do you think that without capitalism everyone will stop eating meat, driving cars, taking vacations, and having children?

Would we all be hemp-wearing, bicycle-riding vegans if not for capitalism? Unless people are willing to dramatically reduce their quality of life, we are fucked.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

reality is that the disproportionate consumption of the rich far outweighs the consumption of the working people but even putting aside the easy gains of no more private jets and the like, there are things we do and buy that dont even make us happy and are terrible for the planet and often for our bodies like cars. The real question is why people would buy tons of useless garbage they dont want nor need and ultimately dont even use in a society were people arent flooded with propaganda to buy said shit all the time and in a society were ur ability to consume isnt the only measure of a persons worth. And that not even saying anything about repeatability and planned obsolescence.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Why would people buy tons of useless garbage

Meat, cars, houses, fresh water, cell phones. That is the top of that list of ecological depredation. Billionaires for all their evil aren’t the ones eating over 50 billion animals per year. Yeah you read that right. It’s a large number.

reality is that the disproportionate consumption of the rich far outweighs the consumption of the working people

Unless by “rich” you mean “middle class Americans” you’re mathematically wrong by many orders of magnitude.

Now I’m down to kill the billionaires, very eager, but it won’t solve our ecological woes. Not even close.

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