Look up rubber cultivation in Myanmar and jade mines and get back to me. Hell, look up the ongoing civil war that’s happening there and ask yourself who’s behind the military government killing the people fighting for liberation. Britain, America, Russia, China… It’s all the same old song, just maybe with a faster tempo this time.
As someone with family and heritage from Myanmar: China is 100% absolutely a capitalistic fascist state.
Getting the top comments too.
That’s what the top comments on this thread say, seems to be the most agreed upon take unforunately.
Haven’t you read the top comments on this thread? It’s impossible to feed people our excess and continue paying for things like USAID because of overpopulation… Apparently.
The “let them starve” eugenics propaganda is strong in the pseudo-science community.
I agree, it’s really hard to remember how to use things like cans and preservatives when it comes to shipping food to areas of famine.
Hard /s
As far as “buying local”, there’s no reason why we shouldn’t be seed-bombing food plants everywhere. Destroying the soil to grow a field of peppers for example, to mass produce and mass distribute them across the world, is not sustainable. Why should food even be “bought” local or not? How are we not lining the streets with fruit trees? Why are urban environments packed full of shrubs and bushes that aren’t growing food? Why are we using lawns to just grow trimmed grass? Why aren’t we utilizing natures impeccable clockwork of self-maintaining edible gardens and forests? We have all the food energy we need raining down from the sky, why aren’t our rooftops being used? We could be living in an abundance of food, all local, all free. Human societies have done that for thousands of years both before and after the so-called “agricultural revolution.” We know it’s possible. We figured out how to turn deserts into forests by just digging a bunch of semi-circles and waiting for a bit.
But we don’t because number go down instead of up. There’s no money to be made in that, so even the most altruistic of investors will be deterred from the lack of monetary ROI and not the ROI of a better world. It’s like the world is stuck in Dark Ages Europe, where people couldn’t imagine how the world could function without the Christian god, the gospel, and the divine leadership of Kings and Queens. Now we’re in a dark age where people can’t imagine the world functioning without money, economic models, and the divine leadership of investors and CEOs. Thinking otherwise makes you a heretic, and considering how they used to burn thousands for the heresy of atheism much like we kill thousands for the heresy of environmentalism.
We credit the Enlightenment era for getting us out of this braindead mindset, yet little has really changed. Whether you call it capitalism or socialism, we’re still draining water tables and making land uninhabitable, then turning the land into gravel and call it “development” or “productivity”. The whole universe is open to this sort of insanity. We really need to go back to the ideas that inspired the Enlightenment and opened European minds to something other than their death-cult religions, like the indigenous critiques of Native Americans.
I’m an atheist to people who believe in money - I just go one God further.