• Okay, let’s say infinite growth is impossible. That seems intuitive. If that’s true, where’s the ceiling? It sounds like you’re worried that we’re going to hit it and bounce off, so maybe we should be planning for this event. What would be the best things for us to do as a species to prepare for this potentially cataclysmic event?

    Money is made up and stupid

    You’re made up and stupid. 😂 Just kidding, money IS made up, but it certainly isn’t stupid. Money doesn’t have any inherent intelligence, obviously, but I think your implying that we are stupid to keep using it as a medium of exchange? What would be a better alternative? Going back to the barter system?

    Idk, money definitely seems better than that. It allows for greater skill specialization and for the construction of more complex economic systems. I know that can seem scary because there’s so much going on to keep track of, but arguably most people participating in society prefer it this way.

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      Lol the people in this thread are piiiiiiiiiiiiissed. I’ve never seen factual, tame macroeconomics 101 get downvoted so hard like this.

      Lemmings know a lot about operating systems, but by god do they make Raegan look like a triple PhD in economics.

      “Deflation is bad” is somehow a hot take around here because it’s either “I want prices to be back at 2019 levels and I refuse to hear that the resulting crisis will be worse than the Great Depression” or “I want to intentionally crash the economy to starve half the population to death and implement my stalinist policies. not necessarily in that order”.