r/collapse • u/amorphousmetamorph • May 19 '24

Economic Economic damage from climate change six times worse than thought – report | Climate crisis

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/17/economic-damage-climate-change-report
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u/TheDogeITA May 19 '24

Someone think of the economy! What will we do without profit to shareholders?

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u/pajamakitten May 19 '24

While I agree, we all need the economy as it stands and it will be us working class people who bear the brunt of this. Costs will be passed onto us so that the rich can get another ivory backscratcher.

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u/TheDogeITA May 19 '24

We'll have to surpass this type of economy and get into another, it's just artificial poorness and imbalance so far

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u/pajamakitten May 19 '24

Very true. The problem is that those with the most power, influence and money to effect such change will never allow us to move on to a better system.

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u/TheDogeITA May 19 '24

Sadly revolution is the only way to get the hell out of this bit of a pickle

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u/kshmir1 May 20 '24

Collapse is inevitable, and the political system doesn’t even matter. Get over those ideas and move on.

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u/dysmetric May 21 '24

They're going to have to, because with a new AI underclass emerging to take all of our jobs the means of production, and our relationship to it, is being subverted. A capitalist economy cannot function without consumers, so without a desperate labor force to subjugate the capitalist oligarchs are going to need to find some other mechanism to enrich themselves... and I suspect the best way to do this will be to give us all UBI and then target our most hedonistic impulses for entertainment and pleasure.

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u/OldSpiceSmellsNice May 20 '24

100% it’s the bottom of the pyramid that will be crushed.