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Re:The Case for Degrowth by WalterBright on Thursday August 11, 2022 @01:33PM (#32429153)
So is food. But every country that tried socialist food production reaped famine.
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Re:The Case for Degrowth by jacquesm on Thursday August 11, 2022 @04:32PM (#32431351)
Yes, but food isn't magic and medicine to most people is.

Here take this pill and boom life extension is on a different level than this is my carrot and even though I have 100's you can't have any.

The first will lead to bankruptcy the second to riots.

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Re:The Case for Degrowth by WalterBright on Thursday August 11, 2022 @07:53PM (#32433259)
> Yes, but food isn't magic and medicine to most people is.

The most bizarre argument I've encountered yet.

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