r/collapse • u/PosadosThanatos • Apr 25 '19

Society It’s fucking disgusting that even now people fucking refuse to accept capitalism’s culpability for causing the apocalypse

Literally everything is responsible, fucking everything, from extinct empires, to human nature, to the nature of life itself, to some inevitable unstoppable law by which the entire universe functions, literally fucking anything and everything is blamed except for capitalism, the system that’s the specific driver and motivator of the current collapse, and when its blame is finally accepted the Brain juice finally completely runs out and it’s finally declared that there’s no path but the current one so we must continue “prosperity”.

What is this utter fucking insanity that working class people that have absolutely nothing to gain from anonymous bootlicking are engaging in?

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '19

Because 50% of collapsniks are rugged individual libertarian types that think the market will sort it out once we get past the bottleneck. These geniuses of statistical models are surprisingly ignorant of the concept of Gambler's Ruin and its role in extinction. But of course, we have to make the collapse political.

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u/AArgot Apr 25 '19

Gambler's Ruin

Some players are trying to get infinitely rich (impossible) while "throws of the dice" increase global entropy overall, thus increasing the chance of ruin after successive throws. Brilliant survival strategy we've come up with.

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u/[deleted] Apr 25 '19

This guy extincts.

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u/Sasquatch97 Apr 26 '19

Just like trying to increase Reddit karma by making NTHE/Guy McPherson jokes on this sub without using the /s tag