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[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 31 points 8 months ago (2 children)

And that now it’s ended up as a Gordian knot strangling us to death, but that cutting will kill us.

so why wait?

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 41 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Now you sound like him. But his was an advocacy based less on "Let's get it over with" and more "I've had a brick on the pedal for years and I've been waiting to find a good cliff to drive off of"

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 14 points 8 months ago

Now you know why econ forecasting as an industry has such a high rate of liver failure. No one can stay sober when both options result in a complete unwinding of society. There are no good ways forward. There's, likely, no way forward.

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.org 2 points 8 months ago

I mean when we can get of all global debt by paying it to the actual debtors, we could then finally move the economy forward into something more sustainable.

[–] Shardikprime@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

No one, except maybe complete unhinged psychopaths, wants to be responsible for billions of deaths, even those who talk/write so lightly of it