Comment on A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system

• bioemerl@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Move there then.

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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    • the indigenous economies that I identify with and would be interested in participating in were destroyed by the British 1000 years before I was born.
    • I’d rather not be a colonizer in an indigenous economy.

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    • bioemerl@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      destroyed by the British 1000 years before I was born

      You acted like they still existed. In that case my original point still applies.

      Those gift economies don't work at scale and you would probably have a significantly worse quality of life if you were born to one.

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      • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        There are still indigenous economies in the world. The ones that I identify with were destroyed by the British though.

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• FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  You mean people who sleep on mats on a dirt floor? Sure. Some of us want to lessen our back pain. You do you.

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  • oo1@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    and most children in most places

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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Come on now, indigenous people exist in the 21st century and have modern amenities. They just also keep their indigenous economies.

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    • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      And they get those modern amenities how?

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      • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How does that matter in the context of fairly distributing goods in a modernized indigenous economy?

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