keccers
@keccers.eth
“If you’re so smart why are the only ways you have to get rich value extractive?” A thought I have often about our so called smart people
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BrixBountyFarm 🎩
@brixbounty
Extraction of natural and human capital is the story of civilization unfortunately
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keccers
@keccers.eth
and people call me doomer! Extraction may be inevitable but is it desirable or sustainable? I agree the optimal amount of all bad things is nonzero but Many things were until they weren’t. Leaded gasoline was profitable and widespread and yet we somehow got it together to stop doing that
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keccers
@keccers.eth
Controversial but I believe Weber that the cultural fuel of capitalism was the Protestant work ethic Catholics were slower to industrialize for this reason Unfortunately we abandoned all that cultural fuel. I believe that without it we will find the system can no longer self sustain. It is why many push for what I argue are lesser economic systems without knowing why
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dutch
@ionoi
Spicy AND correct. 🥰
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keccers
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I’m tired of being called a mf commie I’m NOT 😂
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Augustvscaesar.eth
@augustuscaesar
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Lawsn
@lawsn
The leaded gasoline example was chefs kiss. I struggle with the idea of infinite growth because it is SO extractive. It is true that capitalism is the economic system which has brought about some of the greatest innovations and prosperity but it is also true that it has shifted the paradigm to live to work and no longer work to live.
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