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I think you are conflating different authorities and special interests into one monolith. Corporations want you to consume. Pro-business libertarians want you t
by futureshock 3y ago
I think you are conflating different authorities and special interests into one monolith. Corporations want you to consume. Pro-business libertarians want you to consume. Environmentalists want you to draw down consumption. Authoritarians of every stripe want to tell you how to live your life and control your behavior to match their worldview.
The science says that our economic system is at total odds with our biosphere and that our exponential consumption growth will come to an end. At that point, we will be forced into a new economic system. It’s an inevitability. People’s opinions and ideology can only defy reality for so long.
- avgcorrection 3y agoCorporations want you to “consume“ because that's in their self-interest. Meanwhile nation states also want you to do that, and need you to do that because the economic system itself relies on it. In other words you have all the actual authorities on the side of consumption and the non-authorities like environmentalists on the side of non- or anti-consumption.
- kavalg 3y agoAnd it looks like the "solution" from their point of view is that you consume less, but pay the same amount of money or even more, so that the economy keeps "growing".
- coldtea 3y ago>Environmentalists want you to draw down consumption. That was back in the day. Now they too want you to consume, just "green" products.
- palata 3y agoThose who want you to consume green products are not environmentalists. They just hide behind it to sell their shit.
- kavalg 3y agoAnd what if corporations and government/authoritarians are (loosely) the same entity and pro-business libertarians are on a paycheck/indoctrinated :)