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[–] salacious_coaster@infosec.pub 67 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I also wish all my problems would go away magically

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Maybe it'll be the same day my Mrs. Right appears. It's been so long, the universe must really have a romantic surprise up its sleeve for me! Squee!

[–] Bababasti@feddit.org 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

Stop the passive waiting, OP

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Burning everything will surely help Climate Change!

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, in this theoretical situation it would. Ignoring the fact that it's metaphorical, it's sort of like saying we shouldn't build windmills or nuclear power plants because the construction produces co2

[–] blarghly@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I mean.... maybe burning everything down would mitigate climate change. But the collapse of global supply chains would lead to billions losing access to sufficient food, clean drinking water, internet, electricity/modern heating, medicine, etc. We would see mass migrations, war, famine, disease, and ecological devastation, all on a scale never before seen in the history of humanity. Ie, all the things we are trying to stop climate change in order to avoid.

Like, let's say you murder the CEO of Exxon Mobile and light all their facilities on fire. The company vanishes, and everyone is scared to try to fill their niche (this wouldn't happen, btw, they would just beef up security). Now whatever nation you are in has no oil. Immediately, the entire economy based on ICE vehicles grinds to a halt. Food shortages start within days. So do shortages of critcial medicines. Rural people are forced to decide between scratching a living off the land or abandoning their homes. All production of new plastics stops. Everyone who used to drive a car now spends hours more commuting each day. Everyone involved in oil and gas loses their jobs and start rioting in the streets. Blackouts and brownouts become common as coal and NG plants go offline. People start burning whatever is nearby in order to stay warm. Stressed out moms start murdering each other at the grocery store over rolls of paper towels. Etc.

[–] witten@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is a fun thought exercise but also a total strawman argument. There are many more reasonable ways to get rid of an oil company than to burn it all down overnight. Lots of countries have demonstrated examples of phased reductions of subsidies or increases in taxes to achieve a big policy shift in specific industries. A more radical but still not pants-on-head example is to nationalize a company or industry and then slowly and responsibly unwind it until there's nothing left.

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[–] Bababasti@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

I mean.. in a sense it would, no? (Not that I would want that tho)

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[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 week ago

Oooh using gasoline to fight climate change. Literally fighting fire with fire. I like it.

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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 21 points 1 week ago (4 children)

While i too yearn for the downfall of capitalism, pre-capitalist societies were still responsible for environmental distruction, slavery and genocide.

As long as individuals or a small elite have enough power to enforce their needs over the needs of everyone else, we'll always have capital-b Badnesses.

We have to usher in the collapse of perminant heirarchies, whatever form they take.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

We really need the death of money more than we need the death of capitalism. Because you're right, even before rampant capitalism, we still weren't really great to each other.

What's amazing to me is I'm perfectly content to live and let live. My neighbors, friends, family, all of us....ain't got no beef with anybody. Why does this fail so badly when scaled up?

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There's a lot of neuroscience showing that social power suppresses empathy in the brain. Status, privilege, wealth, etc. make almost everyone less able to consider the pain of others.

Most of us can be reasonable with people we know. But the socially powerful are making most of the important higher-scale decisions, and they are neurologically the least capable of making good decisions on behalf of others.

Or that's how i see the problem.

[–] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well that makes the problem even more blatantly obvious...the problem is social hierarchy. It's impossible to have equality and hierarchy simultaneously...they are mutually exclusive.

They (the ruling classes) are vastly outnumbered, yet they manage to gain control over the masses below them, such that we must support them or the whole thing crumbles.

They've got the supporting class believing that we need them....but really that couldn't be further from the truth.

The problem is, though, as soon as one ruler is gone, another replaces them, and that one is equally corrupt. And the cycle repeats.

But conversely, I don't see how a non-hierarchal society could function, because that implies there must be some sort of order, mediation, and enforcement, which automatically means that some people will have authority over others, no matter how you slice it.

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Before there was money there was debt. Debt goes back thousands and thousands of years.

My neighbors, friends, family, all of us

That's exactly why. You described a band, a tribe, a group. People not in that group are not in your band / tribe / group. So, you don't really need to share your wealth with people from outside your group. Nobody can know and love 8 billion other people. Humans are still fundamentally apes, and that's just not in our ape nature.

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[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Remember everyone, if your utopia relies on the idea that everyone just peacefully gives up their power, it is doomed to fail.

IMHO: We all should strive to be the change we want to see in the world. But sometimes it's even enough to just be the person that you wish to see in the world more often.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

Tbf the chance I want to see in the world is "common sense" tho, so not much I can get better upon to help.

Like people are geniuenly trying to make fascism popular again so what am I supposed to self-improve at, punching?

[–] ZkhqrD5o@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

IMO: punching would be useful in keeping fascists out of a community, if nothing else helps.

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[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

My sweet summer child... We missed our chance. The revolution isn't coming. Or maybe it will happen and then we will die anyways. The climate is fucked. There is no unfucking it. We can fuck it a little less than we currently are every year, but that isn't going to save us.

The effects of this will rival the Permian extinction in the near term and in the long term, barring a miraculous turnaround through geological processes after a few thousand years, it will certainly be worse.

For reference, the Permian extinction wiped out 90% of ALL LIFE. Like 75% of land based life and 95% of all sea life (of which there was considerably more) at the time died out. It was caused by a sudden and severe increase in atmospheric greenhouse gasses over the course of several thousand years. We are outpacing that by orders of magnitude. So we could quite conceivably reach the levels seen during that time and we could do it much faster, giving all life even less time to adapt to the worst catastrophy in the history of life.

We're boned, my dude.

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[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

If capitalism collapses, we're most likely going back to feudalism, not ten-forward to Star Trek.

I wish to highlight that between the Bell Riots and the Phoenix, ST predicted that there would be both the Eugenics Wars and WW3, which leave the world so badly broken that the only "nations" that remain are the Western Alliance and the Eastern Coalition. Alameda, CA gets completely blown off the map; and it's not the only such place.

It's not a pretty picture, when you look at the history they gloss over.

[–] krooklochurm@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 week ago

For a while. Maybe the rest of our lives. We'd come out of it eventually.

Maybe in 1000 years democracy will have a resurgence and we'll have a global democratic government.

Until people get complacent and it stops working and the whole thing collapses in on itself resulting in a return to feudalism.

[–] Doctorbllk@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The industrial mechanisms that promote climate change would not die with capitalism.

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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

But what about the meme economy?

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

I'm willing to sacrifice the value of your meme collection in order to save the planet

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago

My Meme Collection?

No comrade, our meme collection will wave the planet!

[–] MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

That’s the only economy in which communism works

[–] ChilledPeppers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Everyone can have memes, there is no scarcity of it. Happy cake day!

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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We’re a lot more likely to Balkanize and divide

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I think we might see some form of separation.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 9 points 1 week ago

Central planning economies have ruined the planet disproportionately compared to their liberal, market economy counterparts. Consider the USSR: compared to the US, a better environmental record might be expected due to their command economy. To the contrary

Total emissions in the USSR in 1988 were about 79% of the US total. Considering that the Soviet GNP was only some 54% of that of the USA, this means that the Soviet Union generated 1.5 times more pollution than the USA per unit of GNP.

Their planners considered pollution control

unnecessary hindrance to economic development and industrialization

and

By the 1990s, 40% of Russia's territory began demonstrating symptoms of significant ecological stress, largely due to a diverse number of environmental issues, including deforestation, energy irresponsibility, pollution, and nuclear waste.

And this generously glosses over the extent of water contamination, hazardous dumping of toxic & nuclear waste into oceans, etc.

Humans are the problem, and the planet is better off without them.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 week ago

you gotta make it happen.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago

Woody Allen, as flawed as he is, had a good quip about enjoying whatever brings you pleasure without feeling guilty.

The world isn't going to get better. Evolution created a system where those bereft of morals make the rules. It's literally in our nature to lie cheat and steal. Current humans are a statistical anomaly, aside from the tastier class.

[–] plyth@feddit.org 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Why should Capitalism collapse? The rich already own almost everything. Some will go broke but the system can continue forever. If nature collapses and food becomes scarce, it will just become more expensive.

[–] PrimeMinisterKeyes@leminal.space 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Look at election results all over the world. Capitalism is already collapsing... into fascism.
If history is any indication, this means being not productive enough might not only get you fired, but also imprisoned or disappeared. Gotta kickstart a whole trillionaire class soon.

[–] Az_1@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

Fascism is still capitalist and the two co exist. Capitalism to put it simply is an economic system and fascism is an ideology after all.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Covid 2.0 could definitely do us all in.

[–] altphoto@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago

Because lard ass orange pile of shit is not preparing the world for a new pandemic and instead is destroying green energy and allowing AI to waste and pollute the environment.

[–] Az_1@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago

i'd be glad if it did honestly

[–] IhaveCrabs111@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago
[–] Rhyfel@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Why wait? Fucking help it collapse

[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

i think you’re going to be waiting a while?

the last countries that were communist have turned capitalist or at least mixed market

have any countries actually become communist in the last 50 years?

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

You mean those fascist neo-feudal states that existed mostly in North Asia?

Communist countries are something that can't exist on the real world.

[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Capitalism turning shit does not mean instant communism. Bit too US mindset.

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[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Before it goes it will be proceeded be decades of massive corruption, general enshittification of everything, corporate rule and oppression.

When you are running away from corporate sentry drones, because you were outsite after curfew in hunger games type society, it's better time to start waiting.

[–] Dragonstaff@leminal.space 2 points 1 week ago

We've already had decades of massive corruption and general enshittification. Nothing stopping us from making things better.

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[–] AreaKode@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

If history tells us anything...

[–] Aneb@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Capitalism will burn itself out but that literally comes with the burn out of humanity. The only way to reverse capitalism is to revolt and impose our own socialist agenda. I know its not what you want to hear but its the only solution to not ending our lives in horrible desperation. Our new policies for climate change will ensure mitigation of greenhouse gasses but the button has been pressed on our future and we will see climate disasters and a global warming that we will need to endure. Endurance and ensurance are the only outcomes possible with the impotence our society is achieving. We are so stuck in this capitalist hellscape and incapable of fighting the systems that rob resources and leeches on the world. We only have this planet and we are sucking it dry quite literally.

[–] Jankatarch@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You speak as if you are dissatisfied with having a system that fucking implodes by concepts of "automation" and "technology" in the "automation and technology" era.

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