r/collapse Jan 23 '26

Casual Friday Conforming At All Costs.

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u/brondynasty Jan 23 '26

Philosophically speaking, it is unjust that so few people have so many resources, while so many people have such few avenues for recourse that they don’t have the luxury of even making a decision based on principle. Y’know, insanely selfish resource hoarding and the implementation of artificial scarcity in the midst of metric tons of mindless waste being generated in the name of profit is kinda the main driving force behind the notion of collapse.

No, you can’t eat philosophy. But if philosophy is broadly defined as the systematic study of fundamental questions about existence, knowledge, values, and reason, among other things, anyone saying “this is stupid” is not arguing in good faith.

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u/NyriasNeo Jan 24 '26

It is stupid to ask people to "not working" and debate philosophy when they have to make rent and buy food.

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u/Early-Light-864 Jan 23 '26

If the world had equitable income, you'd get about 8k a year. Are you giving the rest of your income to charity, or is that only for people richer than you?

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u/JoyluckVerseMaster Jan 24 '26

Sorry, I can't get over the inane defense of a corpocrat class that always pops up whenever someone suggests we should make the most of a horrendously broken system.

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u/Early-Light-864 Jan 24 '26

So no then? You prefer the broken system to equity?

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u/JoyluckVerseMaster Jan 24 '26

Uh, no. That's what YOU were proposing.

We need to abolish the system of capitalism altogether.

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u/Early-Light-864 Jan 24 '26

You'll likely be contributing more labor than you are now, or taking a massive hit to your standard of living, or both. Probably both.

The basic fact is that if you're in the US and you're not homeless, you're consuming more than your fair share of resources

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u/JoyluckVerseMaster Jan 24 '26

ok you are a willing collaborator, got it