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   Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ (ianrogers@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 07:03:51 JST Ian K. Rogers ikr?╭ರ_ಠ

   The world's entire population could be easily housed and fed with only 30% of the current global labour output - our collective suffering is manufactured by capitalism.

   #ClassWar #Capitalism

   https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000493

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     Rich Felker (dalias@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 18:39:21 JST Rich Felker

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     @ianrogers I think that's a really conservative estimate; it's probably closer to 5-10%, and rapidly going even lower if we spent some of that labor intentionally optimizing it.

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     ts 🚉 (tsyum@thepit.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 18:39:47 JST ts 🚉

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     @ianrogers the part that you've highlighted puts some helpful numbers to this reality. Incredible to think we can get everybody out of poverty while cutting our current resource and energy use by 70% at the same time.

     #climate #economics #LCA #policy #poverty

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     ts 🚉 (tsyum@thepit.social)'s status on Thursday, 26-Dec-2024 18:39:49 JST ts 🚉

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     @ianrogers "We do not need to accept a trade-off between well-being and ecology, and we do not need to accept the continuation of imperialist arrangements. The problem can be resolved with a different approach to the question of growth and poverty. Good social indicators can be achieved with substantially less aggregate production than what characterizes today’s high-income countries, which are highly inefficient at converting throughput and output into human well-being."

     Rich Felker repeated this.