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This is all perfectly fine. The wealthy years of the 20th century (driven by ludicrous amounts of fossil fuel exploitation) are an incredible anomaly in human
by antisthenes 4y ago
This is all perfectly fine.
The wealthy years of the 20th century (driven by ludicrous amounts of fossil fuel exploitation) are an incredible anomaly in human history anyway. We're just reverting back to the mean when the vast majority of people never retired. It was good enough not to die of hunger.
This is going to continue until we start decoupling more of the economy from fossil fuels.
- klipklop 4y agoThis is a super narrow pessimistic viewpoint that is rife with agenda pushing. We do not know if the wealthy years of the 20th century are over yet. Neo-feudalism is possible, but unlikely to be the same conditions as the middle-ages standard of work until you drop dead. Not every single problem in society is fixed by getting off fossil fuels. "Decoupling" the economy from fossil fuels will not be a magic solution in this case.