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  • rah@feddit.uktoCollapse@lemm.eeThe Future is More Stuff
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    4 hours ago

    This mis-allocation of innovative capacity isn’t an accident.

    It isn’t mis-allocation, it’s the correct allocation but those doing the allocating aren’t the ones the author thinks they are.

    It’s the predictable outcome of allowing market forces alone to direct technological development.

    Here’s the essential flaw with this article: the people are not the ones with the power to allow or disallow. The author thinks that with the right number of votes, democratic institutions will correct the direction of technological development. This is not the case. Instead, those with power and money dictate the direction of technological development for their ends. Which includes ensuring the ineffectiveness of said democratic institutions.

    It’s the result of specific choices about how we organize our economy

    It’s not “our” economy.




  • it will be gradual rather than instantaneous

    Of course it won’t be “instantaneous” but I still can’t see how brexit will have an impact. The people who experience the first famine will be the same ones who experience the death of billions. Brexit will mean nothing.

    I’m curious, would you be willing to put some dates to your expectations?

    1. Year of first famine.
    2. Year that population reaches half of 2025 population.
    3. Year that brexit ceases to be relevant to living people.

  • When we’re facing food shortages around the world, the UK will suffer before others.

    Firstly, this doesn’t follow from what preceded it. States in the EU aren’t the only states on the planet that export food.

    Secondly, I think I see what you’re trying to say: you think that as the planet slides into famine, the UK will be worse off compared to EU states in particular because during the slide into death, the slope will be ever so slightly steeper than some countries in the EU.



  • countries can sell to their neighbours

    They can’t sell food they don’t have. How can you still be thinking that climate change is going to be like a temporary blip in food supply? Don’t you understand that we’re all fucked? You really think that Brexit and all the rest of the bureaucratic nonsense people have considered important up until now will mean anything when half the population of the planet has starved to death? Don’t you get where we’re headed?