Comment on Microsoft's carbon emissions up nearly 30% thanks to AI

• SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  deflationary economies are terrible for everyone

  That’s a myth spread by modern monetary theorists because they only understand the economy from an inflationary perspective. Economies worked fine for millennia without inflationary money.

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  • WldFyre@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t think local economies from millennia ago are similar enough to compare to modern global economies with our current population boom. I think we could for sure have a different approach if our population was stable or decreasing.

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    • SwingingKoala@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      worked fine for millennia without inflationary money

      That means until the early 1900s or 1970s when inflation went into overdrive.

      our current population boom

      Huh what?

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      • WldFyre@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        That means until the early 1900s or 1970s

        What a wide window, but I’d like to point out that the baby boomers generation happened right around this time.

        Huh what?

        Fertility rates and total population numbers are not the same thing.

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