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To make a serious comment, not to be snarky, I don't think people realize that as climate change constrains resources economics has replaced war. Specifically t
by itsanaccount 3y ago
To make a serious comment, not to be snarky, I don't think people realize that as climate change constrains resources economics has replaced war. Specifically the technology and organizational reach of private corporations and their capability to change/cripple/impede/boost actors was previously only available to governments.
In most sectors there is no "market" just vaguely aligned or unaligned corporations, and a huge number of people like on this site are tied up in a worldview that no longer reflects reality. In markets where there is still competition, you're looking at an endangered species.
I don't know how this gets fixed, as I don't think we ready to even accept that we will be in a hundred little wars all our lives, and definitely not ready to fight them.
- AtlasBarfed 3y agoWell, it replaces it for now, at this scale. When there's a billion displaced humans level, well, there will be blood. The two big dangers of global warming aren't direct weather effects like fire, hurricane, or even heat waves. It will be starvation from disrupted food supply chains, and war.
- namaria 3y agoThe corporate/government divide is not very useful analytically. Elites use wealth through large scale organizations to hide actors and intent. Government institutions and privately incorporated corporations are just two sets of kit with different uses. The ebbs and flows of power in society operate on scales of decades and centuries. Individual decisions can't change that, and there's nothing special about our time. It's just some phase we have been through before.