Our current economic model is a humanitarian and ecological disaster. We need to pump the brakes. Many more lives will be lost due to excessive consumption and inequality - we're out of time for graceful.
explodicle
joined 9 months ago
simple economics and logic. If your money becomes more valuable over time, it is on your benefit to save it. If it becomes less valuable over time, the opposite is true and you should spend it.
This is true, but it's a bad thing. The economy would be better off if people had savings. We could afford to strike without going homeless. We would consume less and pollute less. Wages would be growing in proportion to the overall economy, not falling relative to the cost of living.
Us being forced to spend money on businesses is good for the businesses, but it hasn't been good for us. Businesses being able to hire more people because we're forced to invest in them is trickle-down economics.
Not really, no. I use my phone and cold storage all the time.
They'll defend their egos by finding some way in which they're still right.
What kind of help - loans so housing gets more expensive?
Maybe we'll get lucky and the economy will collapse.
By avoiding hierarchy. So it's like how a poker game has a bunch of players, but nobody is the boss of poker. And if somebody starts cheating, you either expel them or form a new group.
The hard part is scaling this up to billions of people.
Who's "you all"? The people with whom you've been arguing will probably all have new user names by then.
What's your career?
I would consider that anarchist iff it's not hierarchical, yes.