What, and take any responsibility for the Commons?

Grain is also fruit, botanically speaking.

“If we hold the country hostage, they’ll definitely do what I want before the opposition makes everything irreversibly worse.”

“Then we’ll put you in the crooked home we saw on 60 Minutes!”

Good news! We made the Torment Nexus from the hit book “Don’t Create the Torment Nexus!”

He’s talked about it a bit in response to criticism, IIRC he said his producer kinda set him up for failure. I’m pretty sure it comes up here https://youtu.be/ENhfIeZF_AY?si=KHczjpQYCkBgTGaG (long video but very much worth it if you care about food)

The unintended consequence is genocide. When people need permission to reproduce that introduces a convenient method to keep certain people from having kids.

A strike means things stop. A protest vote means things go backwards, as if there was an entire workforce of scabs waiting to swoop in when the strike starts. There’s no leverage.

At least they’re hydrating potato chips. Kidney failure is a big problem for cats, sticking to an all-wet diet is already better than average.

“…depopulating is not actually necessary in our journey for sustainability.” Illustrating this point in the comment you replied to.

If we can reach asteroid mining that will solve a lot of scarcity issues.

Ol’ Madge thought that money gets burned when spent rather than circulating through the local economy.

“The trolley might have stopped on its own”

The problem is not the resources, it’s the distribution. No political will to end global poverty, no profit in feeding the hungry.

They make a ton of difference if you’re standing on a hard floor for more than an hour or two. Still worse than something to sit on but stools are a luxury beyond the reach of American workers.

I don’t want them to adapt, I want them abandoned and left in the Bronze Age.

You’re saying that we shouldn’t have environmental regulations because all it accomplishes is polluting somewhere else? As if industry doesn’t exist in places where they aren’t allowed to dump all their waste in the nearest river?

Crumbling to the far-right would not be an improvement. “Different but worse” should not be a desirable outcome.

If I’m honest, your point is being let down by your grammar.

The state polices on a societal scale to the benefit of the public all the time. Environmental and safety regulations on businesses is one of the most obvious and successful. We can see historically and currently that, without the credible threat of legal consquence, people will just leave their trash wherever or over-harvest fish and game or accidentally set fire to a forest. Like, it happens anyway all the time but on a smaller scale.

Late-capitalism mostly describes how everything is commodified and owned by a handful of multinational megacorps. It’s got nothing to do with the specifics of Bronze Age mercantilism, nor much to do with the definition of government nor heirarchal systems within society. Regulatory capture is a big problem but that’s not unique to the current system. Without the current governments these corporations would just be cyberpunk Corporate States at best or warlords at worst.

Anarchist communism, in my opinion, doesn’t scale well beyond the neighborhood and is rubbish at the kinds of efficiencies needed to sustain billions of people.

And then three people say to the fourth, “stop driving your car through this garden” and there aren’t laws or courts to handle the dispute so instead they use violence or intimidation.

People cannot self-police on a societal scale.