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Shout out to the oil, meat, and shipping industries
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If only we had deflation people would not overconsume so much
bu... buut economic growth > everything else ...?
How else are they supposed to assuage the feeling that they're not some immortal magical beings living some divine simulation/game as the chosen ~~ones~~ players?
We can't deflate form 8 billion people and counting
Malthus was wrong about this too. It's not the population that's a problem, it's miles of strip malls, filled with cheap trash, and meat and dairy every meal of the day.
And why are those being built? Because the consumer population doesn't care and continues consuming the cheapest dirtiest shit imaginable.
Okay? That doesn't change the fact that it's the lifestyle of people in rich countries, not the number of people that is the problem.
Germany tried it once ... I mean twice
Don't forget about the Chinese. They tried too and they were much more efficient.