We let the few dominate and exploit the many. Our relationship with nature is refelective of our relationship with ourself.
But the cultural focuson domination and exploitation is not biological. It’s not in our nature. The potential to dominate is. But so is the potential of cooperation and mutual aid.
Let’s try to rethink our society and behaviour to nature and each other and aim for the latter. For all our sake.
I’d argue that neither one stems from the other but that they are both manifestations of the same thing: our desire to dominate our environment to make our own lives (or the lives of those important to us) easier and/or safer.
That’s what billionaires who are exploiting the planet and the people want you to believe. They want you to think you are the problem. But if that were true, you could also fix it. Can you? No. Can the billionaires? YES.
They are the fucking monsters! Leeching off of others and giving nothing back. Fucking parasites that need to die in order to save the planet. Humans can live in peace with nature and have been for eons, until capitalism took rise.
Those billionaires didn’t portal into this world from another reality. Pick any human at random, make them a billionaire, chances are you have another worst-of-the-worst.
I’d guess fewer than 1/3 of people are “good” (even after being educated). The rest are just dangerously intelligent animals.
Nobody’s perfect, but if I had a billion dollars my sole preoccupation would be to spend it as fast and effectively as possible to help people in need. That one criterion alone — a kind of minimum requirement — unfortunately makes me weird. However, I stand by the claim that anyone who would do otherwise is a bad person.
To be clear, there is a wealth threshold (Maslow’s hierarchy of needs) that few people in the first world achieve, so we can hardly blame them for not donating their meager savings. But a billion dollars is utterly beyond the pale. Hence my example.
Food is not some luxury. People need to eat. If they don’t eat fish they will eat something else.
You are implying that farming is more sustainable, but it’s not. Over farming, over fishing, over anything is bad. And the only reason it happens is billionaire greed.
Stop blaming people who are barely making ends meet, living wage to wage and buying whatever food they can afford.
Most people can’t afford to think about this kind of shit, but rich folk can.
Go kill a billionaire and make the world a better place for everyone.
We are monsters
We let the few dominate and exploit the many. Our relationship with nature is refelective of our relationship with ourself.
But the cultural focuson domination and exploitation is not biological. It’s not in our nature. The potential to dominate is. But so is the potential of cooperation and mutual aid.
Let’s try to rethink our society and behaviour to nature and each other and aim for the latter. For all our sake.
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I’d argue that neither one stems from the other but that they are both manifestations of the same thing: our desire to dominate our environment to make our own lives (or the lives of those important to us) easier and/or safer.
That’s what billionaires who are exploiting the planet and the people want you to believe. They want you to think you are the problem. But if that were true, you could also fix it. Can you? No. Can the billionaires? YES.
They are the fucking monsters! Leeching off of others and giving nothing back. Fucking parasites that need to die in order to save the planet. Humans can live in peace with nature and have been for eons, until capitalism took rise.
Those billionaires didn’t portal into this world from another reality. Pick any human at random, make them a billionaire, chances are you have another worst-of-the-worst.
I’d guess fewer than 1/3 of people are “good” (even after being educated). The rest are just dangerously intelligent animals.
and which group are you in?
Nobody’s perfect, but if I had a billion dollars my sole preoccupation would be to spend it as fast and effectively as possible to help people in need. That one criterion alone — a kind of minimum requirement — unfortunately makes me weird. However, I stand by the claim that anyone who would do otherwise is a bad person.
To be clear, there is a wealth threshold (Maslow’s hierarchy of needs) that few people in the first world achieve, so we can hardly blame them for not donating their meager savings. But a billion dollars is utterly beyond the pale. Hence my example.
Power corrupts. Our mistake is allowing power to be concentrated.
You all are happy enough to pay for this to happen with your consumption of fish
Food is not some luxury. People need to eat. If they don’t eat fish they will eat something else.
You are implying that farming is more sustainable, but it’s not. Over farming, over fishing, over anything is bad. And the only reason it happens is billionaire greed.
Stop blaming people who are barely making ends meet, living wage to wage and buying whatever food they can afford.
Most people can’t afford to think about this kind of shit, but rich folk can.
Go kill a billionaire and make the world a better place for everyone.