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Re:Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981) by Razengan on Sunday April 26, 2020 @07:40AM (#22986401)
> If you care about global poverty, disease, famine etc. then you care about growth.

I care about diseases being allowed to spread more than they should in the name of growth. This pandemic happened precisely because of greed and the “growth” fetish.

Poverty is skyrocketing now precisely because we didn't bother to stop to set up safeguards in our neverending lust for growth.

I care about our privacy being forcibly penetrated to sell data on our every eye saccade in the name of growth.

I care about every physical and virtual space being bombarded with advertisements during every waking moment in the name of growth.

I care about having every single aspect of human existence from water to companionship, being monetized and curated in the name of growth.

I care about IP franchises being milked to death and their corpses defiled and then their graves exhumed in the name of growth.

I care about the vast biomes being burned down and entire species going extinct in the name of growth.

I care about ethics and morals getting thrown under a steamroller in the name of growth.

Re:Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981) by mjburgess on Sunday April 26, 2020 @09:50AM (#22987111)
A word cloud of nonesense ideological boogeymen connected by free-association.

In two years time when the death rate on C19 is reported at as-flu levels and the world is in a global depression with massive excess poverty, death, and abuse you'll be ranting then too -- just connecting these to "neoliberal conspiracies" as now.

Rather, this will be caused by precise the lack of concern for the economy.

Re:Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981) by Razengan on Sunday April 26, 2020 @10:19AM (#22987324)
> A word cloud of nonesense

The same could be easily said about your comments here, comparing "redistribution of wealth" to genocide.

Re:Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981) by mjburgess on Sunday April 26, 2020 @11:12AM (#22987690)
Not a comparison, an observation. Those societies which tried to create prosperity by redistribution, found there is in fact too little to redistribute. And indeed, therefore, engaged in mass murder to deal with that scarcity.

The same holds today. The GDP of the planet, distributed to all its population is a one-off 20k USD. Not enough wealth for almost anything.

Wealth is about producing over time, and increasing global wealth, ie. decreasing global poverty, is about producing more.

I think the failure to associate such policies with the genocides which underpin them is one of the great educational and moral failures of the 20th C. It hasn't been explained to people that our society is the most moral (by being the richest) in history because people engage in productive activities which provide for their own wealth.

Re:Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981) by Razengan on Monday April 27, 2020 @07:49AM (#22994917)
> Not enough wealth for almost anything.

That is absolute bullshit: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22993157

"2M chickens to be killed in US processing plants due to lack of employees."

Re:Will cable TV be invaded by commercials? (1981) by mjburgess on Tuesday April 28, 2020 @06:35AM (#23005597)
Did you read my comment?

The net GDP of the world, divided by the number of people in it is a one-off 20k -- that amount solves almost no global problems.

As for 2m chickens dying, that's a one-off meal for c. 5 million people.

So one day of hunger for only 5m people was lost. Again: almost nothing.

World problems are solved through growth, not by saving a few lost dinners.