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“But line must go up! For the ecomony!”
Nope... Spreading that bullshit as a fact is part of the problem.
The economy isn't the problem. We can adapt in a lot of ways that helps the climate while also having working economies.
The actual problem is that the people with money want exactly the kind of economy that makes them money for decades. So they will block any changes to keep everything as it is.
It’s very revealing for their favorite lie: “Anyone can get rich. All you have to do is work hard like I do.” Then they do everything in their power to prevent anything that might impact their current money-making scheme.
If they’re working hard now and all you have to do is work hard to get rich, why not move their efforts to something that will make the world a better place… or at least stop making it a worse place?
Really depends how you measure the economy. Gross national happiness seems like better way to judge the health of an economy than GDP, which has little bearing on the state of most people's lives.
Humans make all this shit up, line goes up is a completely valid retort to how the economy is being mismanaged, because it is what is seemingly most important regardless of the quality of people's lives.
Saying if the line didn't go up, people's live would be worse is true, but only because of who we are letting rule the playground, i.e. if they don't have all the toys then nobody is getting anything.
I always replace "the economy" with "rich people's yacht money" in such cases
Maybe the rich people will all get caught in hurricanes and their yachts will go down with them on them. Mother nature correcting course.
I wouldn't count on that tbh, especially since it won't solve anything...
We are not in the same boat at all (metaphorically and physically as well for the most part): The 90% have a little boat at best with most of the Global South being on a raft, with the rich basically being on a Dreadnought but in hysterical size of like cruiseships
Oh man, "For the economy!" is a really depressing war cry...
For our bosses yachts! For pizza Fridays! For unpaid overtime and less sick days! FOR THE ECONOMY!
charges into warehouse with debilitating knee pain I can’t afford to check out