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> 3. We still don't have a good long-term plan for dealing with processing waste at scale; Who is 'we' that should come up with the plan? Government? Most west
by ClumsyPilot 4y ago
> 3. We still don't have a good long-term plan for dealing with processing waste at scale;
Who is 'we' that should come up with the plan? Government? Most westerners don't like government planning - your own post considers government involvement as a downside. We expect the market to manage most things, but markets don't come up with long term plans, that's not their function.
If you come with a subject at random and ask, 'do we have a long term plan for X', generally the answer is no.
We don't have a good term long-term plan for dealing with global warming, the oil running out, falling birthrates for some nations, rising house prices, or for anything really.
- webmaven 4y ago> Who is 'we' that should come up with the plan? Government? Most westerners don't like government planning - your own post considers government involvement as a downside. I think an even broader we was implied, that of human civilization as a whole.
- ClumsyPilot 4y agoOkay, is it possible to answer my question - what aspect of life does Human Civilisation as a whole have a plan for? Because if there is no area of life that we can indetify a plan for, then the whole criticism doesn't make any sence.
- webmaven 4y agoRight now, collectively we are optimizing for return on capital on a sliding scale, those who have the most capital get the highest returns (or if not a higher return, then lower risk for the same return). Over longer time frames we see the pattern failing periodically when inequality gets too severe resulting in societal breakdown in the form of wars or revolutions that end up redistributing assets through various means, including less direct ones like increased labor costs, no matter who "wins".