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Everybody is against this, yet somehow it still happens. Democracy ... yeah right.

• JumpCrisscross 10mo ago
  > Everybody is against this Source? The evidence suggests living standards matter to voters way more than deep-sea shenanigans.
  • pstuart 10mo ago
    This seems to imply that this is the only path to increase standards of living (at least temporarily). It seems more to be a path to greater profits for the mining operations because they can privatize the profits and subsidize the costs. There's ongoing research in increasing the efficiency of resource extraction and it's the path we should be pursuing rather than strip mining the ocean floor.
    • JumpCrisscross 10mo ago
      > seems to imply that this is the only path to increase standards of living Didn’t mean to imply that. It absolutely doesn’t. But for middle-income countries, it’s harder to pitch waiting for more-efficient extraction on land when there are riches on the sea floor.
  • amelius 10mo ago
    It all depends on how you phrase the question. If you mention only improved living standards and not how these are going to be implemented, well, you get the point.
  • fuzzer371 10mo ago
    Better standard of living until we run out of oxygen and all die of asphyxiation maybe