Nope. Climate change is a pollution issue. Reducing consumption can reduce pollution, but paying or not paying for a digital copy of something has effectively zero cost in the form of natural resources or pollution.
I mean sure, but the things people are prone to stealing physically, when they wouldn’t otherwise but for price, tend to be those they must have just to live. That’s not the sort of consumption we can ethically reduce.
Money only has value if you believe it has value.
Money only has value if you like using it to buy food and shelter
Money is fake, scarcity is manufactured, capitalism is a scam
Unfortunately a lot of people have bought into the scam…
Wait, wasn’t the whole point of climate change that we use more resources than the ecosystem can replenish?
Nope. Climate change is a pollution issue. Reducing consumption can reduce pollution, but paying or not paying for a digital copy of something has effectively zero cost in the form of natural resources or pollution.
I’m not saying that the scarcity of digital goods isn’t bullshit, but it’s rarely what keeps people poor.
The comment I responded to was regarding climate change and resource consumption, and piracy’s “impact” on them, so …
I didn’t understand the meme I responded to to be exclusively talking about piracy.
I mean sure, but the things people are prone to stealing physically, when they wouldn’t otherwise but for price, tend to be those they must have just to live. That’s not the sort of consumption we can ethically reduce.
Fixed it for you. Much as we want to, we can’t will away the oppression without first overthrowing the oppressors.
Yep.
Entertainers get the big bucks because millions and billions of normal people spend a lot of time and money being entertained by them.
And we are always looking for the cool and funny next thing. And hawk tua girl legitimately entertained millions of us for 30 seconds.
THE SYSTEM WORKS
It’s why taxes were invented. Nothing gives currency value as being beaten by not giving it back to the king’s men.
$20 can by many peanuts!
Nah that’s bitcoin