... "Capitalism" stringently described could actually mean something very like that, but then people understandably get upset about it. ...
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Replying to @Outsideness @EBBerger and
... "Capitalism means that productivity improvements get Red Queened in a way that never pulls the species out of hell." -- If only, but yes, it should.
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very Puritan indeed.
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Replying to @cyborg_nomade @Outsideness and
the complication is that then the lure of luxurious lifestyles would be lost.
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Luxurious lifestyles = bourgeois trash, who needs em
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very bourgeois of you to say that XD. and well, by historical standards, any modern lifestyle is luxurious. it's hard to see why people would toil endlessly for Moloch without at least some sense of recompense. "no one gets a hormone rush from production for production"
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The hormone rush is supposed to come from not being pushed off the Malthusian cliff.
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Replying to @Outsideness @cyborg_nomade and
careful, if people get good at that they might relax
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Replying to @adornofthagn @Outsideness and
Additionally: if relaxation is continually denied, hell-com doomsday ultimatums become relevant A true game theoretic puzzler
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Replying to @EBBerger @adornofthagn and
I'm counting on hell-com to keep the blow-torch on, frankly.
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"I'm just hoping my grandchildren will enjoy an easier life that I have known." "We need to talk about Hell-communism."
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Replying to @AMK2934 @Outsideness and
hence my repeated emphasis on destroying martian settlements/making mars uninhabitable, the loss of our planning capacity is carefully planned
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