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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Leeward Bound
@leewardbound
"extraction may be inevitable but is it desirable" - and moreover, does being competitively extractive mean you are smart? imho the opposite. the most extractive people i know (and the richest) are all unquestionably the dumbest. when they try to sound smart, it always comes out as "well maybe poor people don't deserve to eat!" and everyone else at the Homeless Charity Gala nods and cheers, because culturally it's widely accepted that anything a rich person says is smart, true, and good.
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BrixBountyFarm 🎩
@brixbounty
What’s been the biggest victories of the 21 st century so far along these lines?
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