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Humans' consumption infinitely expands to fill all available productivity growth, that what has always happened, and what will keep happening unless someone sta
by nlitened 4y ago
Humans' consumption infinitely expands to fill all available productivity growth, that what has always happened, and what will keep happening unless someone starts forcing billions into GULAGs, in my opinion.
- Llamamoe 4y agoNo it didn't, not for the basic goods. Nobody is drinking "all available productivity growth" worth of water, eating the equivalent of food, buying house after house, or compulsively commuting. About luxury goods, don't you think that humans being blasted with aggressive advertising and other manipulation in every single space of our lives has something to do with it? Don't forget that most of the things we purchase don't even need to be owned by every single person - if they could be meaningfully shared, you definitely don't need a 100 cars per 100 families, most tools are needed but rarely, even entertainment is only consummerism-centric because a lot of money is going into making it so, while very little goes into enabling humans to just hang out together.