• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Sensing motive: “Damn, I’m pretty sure that this wannabe capitalist is either a troll or a bot.”

      Edit: “oh look, I rolled a 20.”

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      10 months ago

      No, this is really basic anti-capitalist stuff. It’s not that deep. Just saying that capitalism relies on economic growth in perpetuity, which is impossible in a finite world.

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      Why does this discussion immediately turn to culling and eugenics? It’s like you can’t even admit there could be a problem. Fixing it will be hard, but few suggest those steps are the solution. Instead, it starts with realizing everyone can’t have the standard 2.5 kids. We cannot just keep going. Earth is finite and has finite resources. Adding people means less and less is available to everyone else. But people that want a ton of kids hate hearing that. So it becomes solution aversion (if you don’t like a solution, deny there is a problem) and strawmen, like claiming anyone that thinks there is overpopulation wants eugenics.

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      10 months ago

      Do you have an alternative solution? And what would you propose as a reasonable population cap? 10 billion? 100 billion? 100 trillion?