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That’s never been my experience, but I’m glad it helped you in your situation.

I made a ninja edit, you might have responded before it was up:

victim blamers are all the same.

There it is, explicitly.

That wasn’t really the point being discussed, though. It was about having time to practice healthier coping mechanisms.

lol - they didn’t have to. victim blamers are all the same.

eta: not being able to relax is a mental illness, anyway - usually anxiety of some sort. The cause can still be entirely environmental… such as a lack of time to relax.

lol

Yeah, and mental illness is just people pretending to be sick, right?

I hope you get the help you need someday.

The last paper is insane.

lol

This is only good news if it displaces thermal coal and gas generating stations.

It hasn’t before, why would it start now?

Yeah I got my wires crossed and mixed up the numbers. According to the linked actual article it comes down to missing info related to arrival time.

Lol yes, you’re absolutely right. It comes down to the serving time. My brain was a bit frazzled I guess.

The one I’ve been on was in Shanghai.

That’s really just markets, though. You can have markets with different methods of economic organization.

There isn’t always a solution.

Yeah, well, the EEI is only moving in one direction after all.

Don’t worry, it’s far more optimistic about our situation than reality calls for.

I’m sorry, I won’t be very helpful, I don’t watch many videos or debates. I recall an article a few years ago on this Techno Feudalism, but I’ve forgotten what or where.

My criticisms of him are based on my own understandings of Marx/Engels/Kropotkin/etc. (in particular Das Kapital) and how I perceive his platform in light of that. For example, a UBI would be captured by inflation and rent-seeking without other more meaningful systemic reform. And the basic SocDem platform of capitalism with social safety nets was originally conceived of as a right-wing way to strengthen capitalism and prevent rebellion against the capitalist class. These things reform a system so that it can live to exploit another day. It makes no sense - and appears to be ineffective in practice - to adopt a broadly capitalist platform in order to rail against what are fundamentally capitalist traits.

Also serfs reportedly received more of the profit from their labor than most workers today receive under capitalism. Capitalism failing to provide any semblance of equality or fairness is not a sign of reversion to feudalism - it lacks the particular reciprocal power dynamics that define feudalism, however imbalanced those dynamics were.

That’s my two cents, anyway. You’re two cents are worth just as much if you get something out of his writing. I come loaded with my own biases and I’m sure they deprive me of recognizing potential value on a daily basis.

If the working class at large were willing to choose degrowth, as individuals have, then they could do something.

With a critical mass other types of action would also become more feasible, as I touched on.

I stand by the thesis that they won’t mobilize, but that if they were to do so then they would be able to make a difference. Even if they only destroyed infrastructure in a failed rebellion.

In the end it is a moot distinction, I guess.

They can’t be honest about waging a culture war without defeating their own talking points is often why.

I was a shitty musician but I’m always jealous of the joy pros get from playing. Their seat is the best seat in the house!