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What's stopping them? There's tons of empty land in the world. Go find a stream in the forest and live a sustenance-level life. Oh, they want everyone else to b
by ralph84 7y ago
What's stopping them? There's tons of empty land in the world. Go find a stream in the forest and live a sustenance-level life. Oh, they want everyone else to be miserable too.
- BlueTemplar 7y agoThat didn't work out too well for people that didn't want to own land in England...
- anonuser123456 7y agoCheckmate inequality.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoPerhaps you know this already, but they would be outcompeted very quickly and disappear (like the shakers). It’s like how paying extra taxes voluntarily isn’t a substitute for wanting increased taxation.
- rblatz 7y agoThe shakers died out because they were celibate.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoYep. What do you think degrowth will lead to if it’s done in the context of growth? Nature doesn’t reward restraint, either in that kind of productivity or the other kind of productivity.
- makapuf 7y agoWait a few decades and see if it exuberant growth ... What I think is that we might price natural resources much more expensively. Higher Price and thus growth is not always synonymous with more resources. It is an approximation but better means higher price not more resources.
- lazyjones 7y ago> they would be outcompeted very quickly and disappear So would we on a larger scale if they had their way.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoTragedy of the commons. Unless everyone does it, those that hold back will simply disappear.
- antisemiotic 7y agoThat's what Ted Kaczynski tried before he got driven out of his cabin in the woods.
- moneytide1 7y agoI think he was onto something in his manifesto with constant warnings of the "surrogate activities" that consume so many people's time and resources.
- Sabinus 7y agoDid he get driven out before or after the mail bombs?
- maxxxxx 7y agoHe also sent a few bombs. Without those I think he could have lived his life in peace.
- antisemiotic 7y agoSupposedly he started sending bombs after his neighborhood was paved over.
- rakoo 7y agoA few thousands people generating no pollution won't even start to scratch the issue. It needs massive follow up to have an effect.