Well I figured if you create more people then you create more customers. And with new frontiers comes new opportunities to dump product into taming that frontier (thus more sales of product). And if people die then the birthrate fills the hole and delivers new customers. And disasters function much like new frontiers.
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Sounds like Cory is pointing fingers. Has any society ever curtailed our hunger for more? Harnessed that of the underclass. Gave free rein to that of the overclass. Yes. But never inhibited.
I guess things could be better if we avoided saturation.
Through death, disaster, expanding population or new frontiers
Do you not ignore everything else when you concentrate on a thing?
Do you not collect habits like a bumper collects stickers?
That's my "proof".
I think that farmers have been wiping out forests since forever.
I think the hoarding urge might be genetic. An expression of chronic anxiety.
This is where psychedelics and meditation come in.
The house of representatives is arguably a technology (or something like that. A shared machine?). Technologies are a special case. We've got big groups of people actively striving to improve them.
The casual, half-neglected "everything else" is the norm. Tragedy of the commons and progressively intensified exploitation of that commons is the norm.
Unless it is specifically protected and fostered it gets chewed to bits. The only thing that really protects it is keeping it out of reach (through lack of communication, transportation or whatever)
You need to put this in clear [JOKE] tags, otherwise they'll never get it.
But once you read his words he's got a foot in the door. Then he's harder to ignore.
So maybe it's harder to ignore fools on social media. Which would make social media a kind of fool-enhancer.
I guess this is where blocking comes in. But that seems drastic.
We both know that when you concentrate on one thing you ignore another.
We both know that there is this thing called a habit.
Even without making an examination of the phenomenon we can put these obvious pieces together and reach the obvious implication.
That's 2 paths to my conclusion. To casually disregard both is silly.
But we're always trying to increase revenue and decrease cost. That's biological. It's a constant.
So enshittification and change for the worse look alike. So maybe conflate them
So the only thing free from this constant worsening is that which we give special attention to improving. (Ex : technology)
(It's a strong argument for personal discipline. Chaos is the norm. Insanity is the norm. Rot is the norm. Etc)