• Ragdoll X@lemmy.world
      235·
      2 months ago

      Money is fake, scarcity is manufactured, capitalism is a scam

      Unfortunately a lot of people have bought into the scam…

      • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
        31·
        2 months ago

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

        • MachineFab812
          6·
          2 months 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.

            • MachineFab812
              1·
              2 months ago

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

                • MachineFab812
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  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.

    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
      162·
      2 months ago

      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.

    • alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com
      93·
      2 months 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.

    • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
      61·
      2 months ago

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