Would 1950s Living Standards Save Us?

Re:Would 1950s Living Standards Save Us? by charlescearl on Friday June 17, 2022 @03:00PM (#31782769)

Instead of asking for a return to a time when many of us in the us did not enjoy the right to vote, have have access to education, proper sanitation, access to healthcare (even compared to the current situation), we could just significantly reduce the military budget, or halve the number of foreign military bases. The us military is among the planet’s greatest polluters. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/06/190620100005.h...

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Re:Would 1950s Living Standards Save Us? by mdp2021 on Friday June 17, 2022 @03:13PM (#31782937)

> significantly reduce the military budget

You have missed specifying the preliminary operations required to enable that.

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Re:Would 1950s Living Standards Save Us? by dredmorbius on Friday June 17, 2022 @06:09PM (#31785042)

Could you clarify that?

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Re:Would 1950s Living Standards Save Us? by mdp2021 on Friday June 17, 2022 @06:44PM (#31785408)

Simply that "proper solutions are feasible; silver bullets not really"; that the problems are not really about "what to do", but "how to do it".

"Problem: overpopulation. Proposal: colonizing Mars". Putting the latter on the table was not the real difficulty.

The difficulty is in drawing a feasible plan for an implementation, to promote a proposal into a solution.

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Re:Would 1950s Living Standards Save Us? by dredmorbius on Friday June 17, 2022 @07:17PM (#31785703)

What specifically might you see as requisite preconditions / operations for reducing US military spending?

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Re:Would 1950s Living Standards Save Us? by mdp2021 on Friday June 17, 2022 @08:13PM (#31786118)

?! Apart from the replacement of the current regimes configuration worldwide with a stable coordinated alliance, wiping the current *brink* and redrawing a reassuring image over it? How was that remotely proposable given the chessboard outside the window? Europe is rearming!!!

Last piece of news I got from the papers only minutes ago was Cuba and Urals having met to proclaim their will for a multipolar world - is not the present time clear enough?

Was my previous post not clear? Proposals have to be credible! Anybody can come up with a proposal which is not a solution. It is what so-called "populism" does for a living, to spread "enthusiastic, (pseudo)heartly" ideas. There is no value in "they shall eat cake": you have to point to where the flour and eggs are!

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Re:Would 1950s Living Standards Save Us? by dredmorbius on Friday June 17, 2022 @08:15PM (#31786135)

Thanks, that's clearer.

You're a bit telegraphic in what you write. You might want to offer a bit more to your audience. Your viewpoint deserves it.

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