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Well he's not wrong. Even if we seized power and instated a utopia tomorrow, climate degradation has gotten to the pount where things are unavoidability going to get worse for everyone.
I disagree. The billionaires are stealing a staggering, difficult-to-even-imagine amount of wealth from the world. Greener options often aren't much more expensive at all, but you aren't provided with much of a choice (example: electricity producers). In a utopia we could consume much less total and the median person wouldn't be any worse off.
We don't need militaries. We don't need big oil. We don't need eternal growth with automatic daily pay cuts. They do.
We do need militaries just because these rich, corrupt, sociopath fucks are masters of manipulating people into wanting to hate and kill other people.
If the whole world was at peace with no militaries, some soulless shit would come and convince thousands of people to rape, pillage, and kill...
We need a military. We don't need militaries. I don't see any lines when I look at Earth from space. We need a single military controlled by something like the UN, but nobody gets veto powers, and the military is mainly for their corps.of engineers, unless xenos show up and wanna fuck around and find out.
We also need a solar thruster to solve the dark forest problem, and start star lifting the sun so it will last longer.
We're past a tipping point, which means things are definitely going to get worse no matter what we do.
Of course the amount they get worse could be affected by stopping all fossil fuel burning now, but it's going to get worse no matter what.
I agree that things will get worse on average (mean). Basically what I'm trying to say is that we could distribute the "worse" unevenly, aimed squarely at people like Munger.
well said.
That only makes him half right. I don't know how I could lower my expectations any more than they already have been and I'm already miserable.