America puts such a bullshit, bloated, exaggerated emphasis on monetary success while purposely straining the pathways to achieving it.
Why? Because the system needs you producing at all costs... even if what you produce is criminal. Anything to keep feeding the machine.
Capitalism relies on infinite growth.
Infinite growth requires infinite resources.
We live on a planet with finite resources.
What do you think that implies about the long-term viability of consumer capitalism?
"He had no fascination with minerals or gemstones because he had no expertise with minerals or gemstones."
Ahh, remember the good old days when people cared to be proper experts? What a concept.
The material resources extracted in the last 15 to 20 years exceed the total amount consumed during the entire 19th century and the first half of the 20th century combined.
But there’s obviously infinite resources, right?
It’s wildly ironic that I’ve basically become a Propaganda Technician whose sole purpose is to deconstruct and disrupt propaganda.
Very efficient use of a degree.
The fact that we’ve got old men spending their entire day on an app called X claiming to be a "how to grow your account guru” is everything that’s wrong with the world.
Ffs, go live what’s left of your life.
Capitalist society's based on infinite growth. In order to have infinite growth, you need infinite resources. The story that this will never collapse in on itself is a facade.
Study from 1972 ↓
Resource extraction has tripled since then.
UBI's not the answer.
So what is?