Cy on Nostr: I'm skeptical that the world is doomed for two reasons. First reason is that if you ...
I'm skeptical that the world is doomed for two reasons. First reason is that if you think the world is doomed, that works out really well for potential buyers. You'll sell for cheap, desperate to survive in a hopeless situation. Your house, your car, your medical care, and why does it matter if you get ripped off? World's doomed!
Second reason is that if you think the world is doomed, that works out really well for sellers. You'll pay up the butt for basic necessities and you won't suspect a thing. The world is doomed, you think, so all you can see are struggling farmers fighting hopeless odds to get you the things that were once cheap and easy. You don't see conniving food corporations plotting to restrict supply to fool you into thinking there's a shortage. If you ever start to suspect the world isn't doomed, you'll start asking uncomfortable questions like why is there no oversight to make sure that these lying bastards aren't the ones who get to sell you all your food?
The sad thing is all this can and will occur simultaneously with world-ending crises, with actually struggling farmers, and actual massive property damage and destruction. But either way, there are a lot of people idiotically devoted to those conniving snakes plotting to enslave us all, and those employees will work hard, even if their job is to make the destruction of the entire world look much more dire than it really is.
If it benefits the ultra rich, that's what you'll do, no matter how ethical your job seems, no matter how harmless or indirectly separated from the monsters at the top. If you work for money, then you work for the money makers, and everything you do will further their tyranny over you and over us all.
#rant
Second reason is that if you think the world is doomed, that works out really well for sellers. You'll pay up the butt for basic necessities and you won't suspect a thing. The world is doomed, you think, so all you can see are struggling farmers fighting hopeless odds to get you the things that were once cheap and easy. You don't see conniving food corporations plotting to restrict supply to fool you into thinking there's a shortage. If you ever start to suspect the world isn't doomed, you'll start asking uncomfortable questions like why is there no oversight to make sure that these lying bastards aren't the ones who get to sell you all your food?
The sad thing is all this can and will occur simultaneously with world-ending crises, with actually struggling farmers, and actual massive property damage and destruction. But either way, there are a lot of people idiotically devoted to those conniving snakes plotting to enslave us all, and those employees will work hard, even if their job is to make the destruction of the entire world look much more dire than it really is.
If it benefits the ultra rich, that's what you'll do, no matter how ethical your job seems, no matter how harmless or indirectly separated from the monsters at the top. If you work for money, then you work for the money makers, and everything you do will further their tyranny over you and over us all.
#rant