• @Worx
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      Money only has value if you like using it to buy food and shelter

    • Ragdoll X
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      Money is fake, scarcity is manufactured, capitalism is a scam

      Unfortunately a lot of people have bought into the scam…

      • @[email protected]
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        213 days ago

        Wait, wasn’t the whole point of climate change that we use more resources than the ecosystem can replenish?

        • @[email protected]
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          613 days ago

          Nope. Climate change is a pollution issue. Reducing consumption can reduce pollution, but paying or not paying for a digital copy of something has effectively zero cost in the form of natural resources or pollution.

          • @[email protected]
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            112 days ago

            I’m not saying that the scarcity of digital goods isn’t bullshit, but it’s rarely what keeps people poor.

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              The comment I responded to was regarding climate change and resource consumption, and piracy’s “impact” on them, so …

                • @[email protected]
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                  I mean sure, but the things people are prone to stealing physically, when they wouldn’t otherwise but for price, tend to be those they must have just to live. That’s not the sort of consumption we can ethically reduce.

    • @[email protected]
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      Money only has value if you believe because the ones with power over everyone else say it has value.

      Fixed it for you. Much as we want to, we can’t will away the oppression without first overthrowing the oppressors.

    • @[email protected]
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      613 days ago

      Yep.

      Entertainers get the big bucks because millions and billions of normal people spend a lot of time and money being entertained by them.

      And we are always looking for the cool and funny next thing. And hawk tua girl legitimately entertained millions of us for 30 seconds.

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      It’s why taxes were invented. Nothing gives currency value as being beaten by not giving it back to the king’s men.