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Important to remember that we as humans no longer compete for resources. We have more than enough resources to go around for 10 billion people. The limiting f
by konschubert 6mo ago
Important to remember that we as humans no longer compete for resources.
We have more than enough resources to go around for 10 billion people.
The limiting factor is in intelligence and dexterity. In other words, we get richer when we are more.
- Thiez 6mo agoWe very much do compete for resources. People die of famine, thirst, exposure, and other lack-of-resources-related causes every day. That we could theoretically feed everyone doesn't matter when people compete for more than their fair share.
- konschubert 6mo agoThese are distribution problems. Usually intentional. There is enough food to feed everybody.
- prerok 6mo agoEmm, what? You are aware of all the wars going on right now?
- konschubert 6mo agoYes and? They are not about natural resources.
- Thiez 6mo agoLiterally about land, oil, rare earth minerals…
- konschubert 6mo agoYou can claim that and it's a comfortable thing to believe but that does not make it true. If you want to convince somebody who actually seeks truth, you have to make an argument how any country who has started a war recently has had a net economic profit.
- prerok 6mo agoOk, so what do you think these wars are about?
- konschubert 6mo agoUkraine: Personal Grandeur by Mr Putin. Iran: Security, hate, personal Grandeur
- constantius 6mo agoWeord position to defend. So: modern wars are not about resources because there's enough food to feed everybody, those wars that are widely understood to be about resources (oil, land) are "distribution problems" and not about resources, and the only way to prove that they are is to show a country-wide economic benefit to the victor directly related to the war... Confidently dismissing others based on your own weird definitions and shifting goalposts does not make you seem as knowledgeable as you think.
- konschubert 6mo ago> those wars that are widely understood to be about resources (oil, land) The Ukraine war was started because Putin wanted it to be his heritage that Ukraine is part of Russia. The Donbas has some mines but nothing that cannot be found eleswhere in the vast expanse of the Russian empire and nothing that Russia couldn't easily have bought with its oil money.