• xxce2AAb@feddit.dk
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    12 days ago

    Well, yes. But that’d require fair, sensible distribution and use of available resources, and then how would we be able to support the ability of a handful of billionaires to subvert our democracies for their own gain? /s

  • Troy@lemmy.ca
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    12 days ago

    How does that quote go? Something like: the future is here, it’s just unevenly distributed.

  • Riskable@programming.dev
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    12 days ago

    I’ve seen this before. Last time I looked, it required that everyone live in cities with good public transportation. It also didn’t factor in modern necessities like air conditioning (which will be actually necessary in many more parts of the world due to global warming).

    Basically, for this to work, everyone needs to live in 2-bedroom apartments… Without air conditioning or anything like a desktop PC. You’d have a small refrigerator and heat your food with a microwave (and nothing else because stovetop and ovens use up too much energy).

    It also makes huge assumptions about the availability of food, where it can be grown, and that all the necessary nutrients/fertilizer are already present in the soil and that transporting/processing things like grain is super short distance/cheap.

    Also, communism. It requires functioning communism. That everyone will be ok with it and there will be no wars over resources/land.

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        11 days ago

        Not only that, but all 8.5 billion would also need to be willing to stop any “lifestyle inflation”. It’s not just about accepting it for a day, it’s about adjusting to that being the norm for themselves and for their kids into the foreseeable future.