• a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Man, shit gets really expensive sometimes. We can wish with all of our hearts that medicine, chemistry, physics, etc. get more viable, but that isn’t how it works.

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      12 hours ago

      Things are only “expensive” because of our arbitrarily designed system of economics. Money is fake. We can change the rules to fit material reality.

      We don’t need the science to become viable, we need to change our rules of society to make the science accessible.

      • Kratzkopf@discuss.tchncs.de
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        9 hours ago

        Not all things are expensive on a whim. Some things just use massive amounts of material, energy and work hours to be produced. I cannot just stop paying miners their already too low wages. I also cannot take energy for free. It is not like we have all minerals and energy in abundance and have automated the crap out of every production chain.

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          8 hours ago

          Miss me with this “capitalist realism” take. Money doesn’t make things happen. We can restructure our economic system to not be in a stranglehold of arbitrary monetary value. In our current system that conflates monetary value with material value yes, things are expensive due to whims, specifically the whims of the owning class.

          There are other incentives for why people labor than just getting paid.