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[-] style99@lemm.ee 12 points 5 days ago

Money only has value if you believe it has value.

[-] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days 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 3 points 5 days ago

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

[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 5 days 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.

[-] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

I'm not saying that the scarcity of digital goods isn't bullshit, but it's rarely what keeps people poor.

[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The comment I responded to was regarding climate change and resource consumption, and piracy's "impact" on them, so ...

[-] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I didn't understand the meme I responded to to be exclusively talking about piracy.

[-] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days 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 15 points 5 days 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 9 points 5 days 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 6 points 5 days ago

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

[-] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 4 points 5 days ago

$20 can by many peanuts!

[-] kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

Nah that's bitcoin

this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2024
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