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A Boring Dystopia
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What's the confusion? We can produce ethically and sustainably. This is a fact.
People cannot consume what isn't produced. This is also a separate fact.
Put them together with an understanding of logic, as explained, and you'll see that if we control the production then we control the rate of consumption.
So you are saying we cant produce ethically with the rate of current consumption?
No. You're flipping the logic to suggest that consumption controls the rate of production. You didn't understand what I said at all or didn't read it.
I'm saying that with the current system which dictates the incentives behind production is causing us to over produce through unethical and unsustainable methods and people are simply consuming what is available, because people need to eat and they can only eat what has been produced. That is a physical, material limit of life. If society was restructured to where the workers owned the means of production and the profit incentive was done away with then the rate of consumption would logically have to be lower as a result, because people physically cannot consume what isn't produced.