• @[email protected]
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    2 months ago

    Who cares, let population decline for a generation or so. Maybe we will stop producing so much shit and scale back

    • @UnderpantsWeevil
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      232 months ago

      let population decline for a generation or so

      But that’s bad for the Big GDP Number

    • @pyre
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      152 months ago

      that’s not how capitalism works. if you’re not selling enough shit you find a way to make the same people buy more or pay more. line must go up. no scaling back. line must go up.

      • @Dkarma
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        152 months ago

        But, now hear me out…what if it doesn’t…

        • @[email protected]
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          112 months ago

          I don’t understand… Are you saying, line go down? I’ve never heard of such a thing

          • @HappycamperNZ
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            82 months ago

            You’ve never seen my bank account …

        • @pyre
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          102 months ago

          hahaha… haha… ok now that we laughed at that ridiculously absurd idea, let’s watch the line go up.

        • @Cryophilia
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          62 months ago

          If line stays flat? Things kinda gradually get shittier for a while.

          If line goes down? Economic collapse. Riots in the street. Civil anarchy. Homelessness and crime will skyrocket.

          Those of you who have never taken an economics class think this is satire.

          The problem is when corporate profits go up but wages stay flat or go down. Or when wages go up for some but not for others.