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Eat the bugs, live in the pod.
by symlinkk 4y ago
Eat the bugs, live in the pod.
- weard_beard 4y agoLizards rule!
- spaceman_2020 4y ago$400k pods at that!
- sidewndr46 4y agoIt seems the target of "you'll own nothing" has slipped to "you'll own a tiny, overpriced thing".
- Ekaros 4y agoAnd carry the huge expensive loan on it...
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- hberg5 4y ago
- Ancapistani 4y agoI’ve always found this whole line of thought strange, from both sides. I’m a capitalist to the core, but I have no problem with the ideas of renting things that are cheaper to rent than to buy, or with “eating bugs”. Alternative protein sources are pretty interesting to me, actually. Every dollar I can cut from my cost of living is a dollar I can use to buy assets - and to me, an “asset” is something that either produces income or appreciates at a rate above the cost of maintenance. If I were a collectivist, what’s the advantage of trying to force either of those things on people - or even to incentivize it? Why would I care how people feel about their food and property? I’d want to change the structure of society itself to provide more obvious value in public services than the free market provides privately. Angering people by imposing things on them - especially if that imposition is easily assigned to the things I’d want to grow, like the government - would be extremely counter-productive.
- vba616 4y ago>change the structure of society itself to provide more obvious value in public services than the free market provides privately Actual free markets that exist are "free" in the way that a wheel turns freely if it has good bearings with little friction. They're not free of human oversight or in competition with the people who maintain them.