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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Roadu 🎩🦊
@roadu
I believe the colonial frontiers helped fuel this as well and that opening up new frontiers in space would help address scarcity and fuel new growth
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keccers
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I agree to a degree. Frontier makes being lazy deadly. Puts the whole ideology on steroids. But I don’t think we have long enough to wait — we are so far away from space colonization 🥲
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Roadu 🎩🦊
@roadu
I believe our distance on space colonization is mostly political I and I believe many others would gladly board Orion project type multi generational space ships towards new worlds even if it won’t be arriving for 15 generations
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