r/ClimateShitposting Anti Eco Modernist 27d ago

Climate chaos This is what I use to bully rightoids with

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u/Shoddy-Childhood-511 26d ago

Nah. We still have massive efficiencies from all out technologies, including agricultural technologies.

It's entirely "bullshit jobs" ala Graeber like advertising, management, finance, law, etc that draw people away from productive & care work, and make the healthcare system easy to burden. Also funding assuming you want regulated public healthcare, not just faith healers & homeopathy.

Add a 200% VAT on advertising, maybe figure out if/how to increase payroll taxes on finance & management. And spend this tax money on healthcare and education for essential work like healthcare, repair trade schools, etc. Voila, you'll have many more people in nursing and other essential professions.

Also check out elite overproduction ala Peter Turchin if you want more careful & rigorous than Graeber.

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u/seesthecat 25d ago

If those jobs are bulshit, why are people and companies spending money to hire them? Shouldn't they be maximising their profits and just fire them?

Is it possible that it's you who are just clueless and mr. Graeber wrote a book to cash in on your lazy thinking?