muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The whole uses lots of energy therefore bad argument is complete bullshit. Energy usage is directly proportional to technological development and technology is effectively human evolution.
muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The whole uses lots of energy therefore bad argument is complete bullshit. Energy usage is directly proportional to technological development and technology is effectively human evolution.
AIhasUse@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Good luck, you are talking to people who think that if the billionaires passed out all their money to everyone, then we would all be able to afford way more stuff. They have no idea that more cash doesn’t mean way more products appear. Supply and demand is such a simple concept, but to them, it might as well be rocket science.
Contentedness@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Imagine being so naive as to believe massive wealth hording deprived others! What turkeys! Amirite?
AIhasUse@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Imagine if you will that there are 5 items to be had, everyone wants them. Everyone except for the evil rich man has 10 tokens. The evil rich man has a billion tokens. Right now people are willing to sell an item for 4 tokens. One day the people kill the evil rich man and spread out all his money evenly. There’s still 5 items! They just go up in price! The rich man’s blood doesn’t create more items! It isn’t complicated. It’s very simple.
ShittyBeatlesFCPres@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Now you imagine that the rich man undermined democracy and the rule of law, monopolized industries, and charged everyone 5 tokens a year for basic necessities.
I don’t think it’s everyone else who has a child’s understanding of economics.
eran_morad@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’ve got to be dumber than dogshit to not realize that unregulated CAPITALISM empowers those with CAPITAL at the expense of those without it. That’s the whole fucking point. Your dumbass example ignores an entire academic discipline’s worth of understanding, backed by empirical observation. JFC.
Contentedness@lemmy.nz 2 months ago
Ok but the way I see it there are 100 people and 1000 tokens. Instead of every person getting 10 tokens, one guy has 998 tokens and everyone else argues over the remaining 2. Would killing the one rich guy not free up some tokens for the rest of us?
BruceTwarzen@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Who’s they? Are you schizophrenic?
mriormro@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The dude’s tilting at windmills.
AIhasUse@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The same people that think energy use is a bad thing are the people that think that if we pass out all the billionaires money, then we can all have way more value. They are teenagers or people who never learned anything beyond what they teach in middle school. They think their gut instinct must be fact, so they spew it over and over. I’m sure you’re not one of them.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Anti-rich/billionaire/capitalism agenda is quite widely subscribed to by a large amount of Lemmings
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