culprit

Otherwise what would be the point if everyone thinks it is useless?

Capitalism trying to convince people it is still relevant and viable.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/gdp-is-the-wrong-tool-for-measuring-what-matters/

These examples illustrate the disjuncture between GDP and societal well-being and the many ways that GDP fails to be a good measure of economic performance. The growth in GDP before 2008 was not sustainable, and it was not sustained. The increase in bank profits that seemed to fuel GDP in the years before the crisis was not only at the expense of the well-being of the many people whom the financial sector exploited but also at the expense of GDP in later years. The increase in inequality was by any measure hurting our society, but GDP was celebrating the banks' successes. If there ever was an event that drove home the need for new ways of measuring economic performance and societal progress, the 2008 crisis was it.

have you tried car pooling or transit?

no the bikes are the problem!!!

Quite the opposite in fact, they were directly inspired by previous settler-colonialism and successful genocide.

Writing in “Mein Kampf” in the 1920s, Hitler praised the way the “Aryan” America conquered “its own continent” by clearing the “soil” of “natives” to make room for more “racially pure” settlers and lay the foundation for its economic self-sufficiency and growing global power. Indeed, the concept of Lebensraum was coined and popularized by Friedrich Razel, who said his theory of colonization and racial replacement drew inspiration from the American historian Frederick Jackson Turner’s “frontier thesis” and its identification of “colonization of the Great West” as central to American history and identity.

Picked up this phrase from a random comment a few years ago:

philosophically I'm an anarchist, so pragmatically I'm a communist and currently I'm a socialist

Think of the grifting opportunities! I hope someone does something funny.

Oh please don't throw me in the briar patch!

this is ostrich riding erasure

The Christian Right that faithfully facilitates Israel's decades of war crimes surely has no problem with gay people.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stateless_society

In stateless societies, there is little concentration of authority. Most positions of authority that do exist are very limited in power, and they are generally not permanent positions, and social bodies that resolve disputes through predefined rules tend to be small.

Over the course of history most stateless peoples have become integrated into external state-based societies.

Some political philosophies, particularly anarchism, regard the state as an unwelcome institution and stateless societies as the ideal, while Marxism considers that in a post-capitalist society, the state would become unnecessary and would wither away.

This is the goal. As the means of production are socialized (owned by everyone), the concentrations of wealth, influence, power and authority would be eroded down. It is continually iterative process with democratic and participatory inputs.

Survival of the fittest

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_Darwinism

Social Darwinist definitions of the strong and the weak vary, and differ on the precise mechanisms that reward strength and punish weakness. Many such views stress competition between individuals in laissez-faire capitalism, while others, emphasizing struggle between national or racial groups, support eugenics, racism, imperialism and/or fascism.

https://lemmy.ml/post/3795675