• ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Because everyone thinks they need to live lavishly.

    Everyone thinks they need a mansion or twelve cars to be happy.

    If everyone would be content with simply living a modest life we could exist harmoniously with the environment.

    But nope gotta have that big house with all that empty land for aesthetics so fuck everyone else ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

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      9 months ago

      This view only makes sense if the basic necessities for life were actually affordable for most people, which is completely untrue

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        9 months ago

        Which is only true because of the greed that most people feel towards their own.

        Essentially shits only expensive because enough people just go “fuck you I’ve got mine” despite having more than they’ll ever need let alone use in their lifetime.

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          9 months ago

          The phrase “enough people” is doing a lot of work in that sentence. “Enough” is a very small percentage of the population, only given outsized power due to our political and economic systems - systems which can be changed to disincentivise that behaviour and dissolve that power.

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      9 months ago

      Everyone thinks they need a mansion or twelve cars to be happy.

      Not at all. I’ll be happy if I have my own house, one car and if I can afford to travel now and then.

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      9 months ago

      Not really. I feel like for instance if you are living in the US, you may easily need to pay the price of twelve cars if you need state of the art medical treatment for something like cancer. Hard to say no to a couple million bucks just even from this perspective.