Printing money - stock market surge (General)

by dulan drift ⌂, Monday, January 11, 2021, 06:10 (1174 days ago) @ dan

On some level, the gorilla in the china shop breaking everything is our culture, economy, even identity (in the US anyway) all being based on consumerism.

That's the key right there - consumption. All the problems in the world can be traced back to that. It's what we do as living creatures - consume and reproduce. As humans we got too proficient at it.

We went beyond 'consuming to keep ourselves alive' to 'consumption as a status symbol' - the best car - the best house - the best holiday at the best hotel. It became a consumption competition - a feeding frenzy.

With chickens i noticed a kind of thoughtless greediness. Give them a patch of grass and some time - they will eat that down to bare earth. They're not thinking 'maybe we should conserve some of that for later'. The impulse to consume is overpowering - even when it will result in their own doom.

Luckily for the chickens i am around to ration out supplementary food, but i don't know who's around to rein in human consumption.


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