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> but wait... our entire economical system is based on this. Hence our problems. If there's something I've learned to notice recently is that most world issues
by aylmao 8y ago
> but wait... our entire economical system is based on this.
Hence our problems. If there's something I've learned to notice recently is that most world issues are or were very profitable for someone. I think we're past the point where "nature" is really that big of an issue, and now it's mostly just us pecking each other down either in the smaller scale, or in large, systematic ways.
- dzhiurgis 8y ago> most world issues are or were very profitable for someone Can you elaborate a bit more?
- JetSpiegel 8y agoWhere to start? Wars? Global Warming?
- babyloneleven 8y agoWe offload to others the externalities of our activities as much as possible. We are not sustaintable, and nobody is eager to bear the costs of whatever they are doing. This is a result of our narrow vision. Slavery - treating people as property, like we treat animals - is an extreme example of this, and to this day we are still facing the consequences. But we still treat animals that way - as things that are bought and sold and exploited to death. Even after such animal slavery is abolished, we will still experience its consequences, for a long time.