boem@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoTo build a better world, stop chasing economic growthwww.nature.comexternal-linkmessage-square72fedilinkarrow-up1679arrow-down115
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minus-squareBlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down16·11 months agoIt also funds everyone’s retirement. People start revolting pretty quickly when they learn they get paid almost nothing and they have to rely on a magic money making machine in the stock market to live out their twilight years.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·11 months agoSounds like a good argument for government pensions. Thank you, comrade!
minus-squareBlanketsWithSmallpox@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoAnything that allows people to retire and doesn’t require unsustainable GDP growth I’m happy with LOL.
It also funds everyone’s retirement. People start revolting pretty quickly when they learn they get paid almost nothing and they have to rely on a magic money making machine in the stock market to live out their twilight years.
Sounds like a good argument for government pensions. Thank you, comrade!
Anything that allows people to retire and doesn’t require unsustainable GDP growth I’m happy with LOL.