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Anon is jealous (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] style99@lemm.ee -5 points 11 months ago (7 children)

Money only has value if you believe it has value.

[–] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 44 points 11 months ago

Money only has value if you like using it to buy food and shelter

[–] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 18 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Money is fake, scarcity is manufactured, capitalism is a scam

Unfortunately a lot of people have bought into the scam...

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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 11 months ago (1 children)

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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

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

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 11 months 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 11 months 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.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

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

[–] alvvayson@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] feedum_sneedson@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

THE SYSTEM WORKS

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 4 points 11 months ago

$20 can by many peanuts!

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Nah that's bitcoin