• @[email protected]
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    9 months ago

    Capitalism won’t allow us any means to solve the climate crisis unless their motives for profit somehow magically aligned with the climate motive.

    Capitalism is killing us all. And they’re happily watching us fight amongst ourselves over our own “carbon footprint.”

    Break out the guillotines, burn down the banks, upend the system. We don’t have any more time for this shit.

    • @nevemsenki
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      29 months ago

      So what’s your alternative? I’ve lived in planned economy during the socialist era, and it wasn’t exactly great. You had to have friends telling you when shipments of toilet paper or food would arrive and make it early to the shop - otherwise you got nothing, because someone in the central planning office fucked up again.

      • @[email protected]
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        49 months ago

        The alternative is a cooperation based economy, rather than a competition based one.

        You know, like how the very basics of society work. After all, without cooperation society would never exist.

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        9 months ago

        This is a false dichotomy. Also, in the case you haven’t noticed, this sub is part of a solarpunk server. We want solarpunk :)

        • @nevemsenki
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          29 months ago

          Ah, so that’s what the slrpnk is! Still find lemmy weird at times.

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          9 months ago

          Hungary, back in the Kádár era. According to my parents, it was way worse before, back in the Rákosi days.

    • @Pizza_Rat
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      09 months ago

      Or maybe we could work a unified coalition of voters around the implementation of a carbon tax, incremented over a period of years, to align those incentives?

      • @riodoro1
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        49 months ago

        Lets give the oligarchs another 200 tears. Surely they’ll do the right thing.

        Wake the fuck up. This system is rotten to the bones. Our freedom exists as long as it is in line with their profit. Smoke and fucking mirrors.

        • @Womble
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          59 months ago

          Because burning down the system and starting from scratch has such a great track record and certainly isnt idealistic…

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            Burning down the system is starting from scratch is the reason why you can even vote in the first place.