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If money didn't exist there would still be a small group of people vying for power and the belief that they should rule over the rest or us. Money just made it easier.

The love of money is the root of all evil

It is a little weird that this had never occurred to you until it popped into your head during a shower, but better late than never!

This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

Or more to the point; money is the problem. Currencies are useful tokens that make trade more convenient. But systems have been built around the simple concept of a trade token that a person can have power over others by just having a bigger number.

But it's just a number. Most of the time a number that doesn't even represent anything real or physical. Just a number of a hypothetical thing(s) that has a certain hypothetical value because someone said so.

As it ever was. It's humans. We are the problem.

It is a bit more complicated than that

Nah b....most of the misery in the world comes from people refusing to work on themselves.

If more of us owned our flaws and pushed to be better, we’d lift up ourselves, our families, our neighborhoods, and our communities along with us.

Edit: just ask yourself, "are you the most optimal version of yourself."

Sure, we want to blame climate change on the fossil fuel industry, the capitalist owners thereof, the big industries, long haul ocean shipping, etc. But I don't think it's realistic. Imagine the situation a few hundred years ago. We burned wood to keep warm in the winter. We cut down forests and pre-burned them in vast quantities to make charcoal which we then used in smelters to make iron and steel, in kilns to make pottery and glass, in steam engines to turn all sorts of things. We were on track to cut down every tree on the planet to use for one of those things. Then we found fossil fuels. They were better than wood in every way, except that the generated CO2 wasn't renewable. Any nation that used them surged ahead of all others in productivity, defense, offense, and quality of life. To refuse to use them, even if you knew they would kill us all a few hundred years later, meant that you got outcompeted, and probably overrun or conquered. There was no option. So everyone used them more and more. That's been the story ever since. It's a Faustian bargain. You get comfort and success now and someday your ancestors will suffer. But you figure that they will be smart enough then to solve the problem so you don't worry about it. Yes, our economic system guarantees that a small number of people will profit from it the most. And they will make it worse one way or another. But climate getting worse just a matter of time. Even if we had the most enlightened people making decisions for us who would agree when they said we all had to stop using fossil fuels? There is almost nothing you use in your life that isn't made with fossil fuels somehow. And it's too late now. We can't go back. We can't all be subsistence farmers. There are too many of us. We can't survive without fossil fuels.

tl;dr - yeah, the capital owners are awful, but climate change would have happened without them.