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Anon is jealous (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 weeks ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] style99@lemm.ee -5 points 2 weeks ago (7 children)

Money only has value if you believe it has value.

[–] Worx@lemmynsfw.com 44 points 2 weeks ago

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

[–] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

[–] MachineFab812@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks ago

THE SYSTEM WORKS

[–] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 4 points 2 weeks ago

$20 can by many peanuts!

[–] kameecoding@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago

Nah that's bitcoin