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You can either solve the problem with money, or you can change human behavior with regulatory burden that ultimately depends on force. I'd think you're way be
by akira2501 4y ago
You can either solve the problem with money, or you can change human behavior with regulatory burden that ultimately depends on force.
I'd think you're way better off just solving the problem. Someone else called this "solutionism." Well, this article makes an exceptionally good case that the amount of input cost justifies the output economic activity by more than order of magnitude... so with this in hand, what would the justification be for forcing unnecessary changes in human behavior?
- lm28469 4y agoIt's not solving the root cause though, it's more like a bandage on an open wound. Tech allowed us to live in ways that are 10-100x time to wasteful to be sustainable, we should learn to be frugal again
- akira2501 4y agoThe root cause is humanity. You cannot "solve" this. You can only force people to do what you want as opposed to what they would want. Our frugality was not a learned trait that we've simply discarded.. it was purely a consequence of our lack of technological progress and the austerity it forced on us. It's the oddest thing to me to live in this world of amazing technological progress, while openly suggesting that throwing this technology away and returning to austerity is the only viable "solution."