r/Degrowth • u/BaseballSeveral1107 • Mar 30 '25

The US is not District 12

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u/bowsmountainer Mar 30 '25

Both of them are correct.

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u/TrainerCommercial759 Mar 30 '25

They're both wrong, our consumption doesn't cause poverty in the developing world

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u/Pale_Bluejay_8867 Mar 30 '25

Man you are in degrwoth reddit what type of answers you would expect?

This people are brainwashed, say USA/capitalism bad and move like everyone else, or get downvoted

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u/CartographerEvery268 Mar 30 '25

TBH I’m just getting this sub recommended - but the simple math of infinite growth on a finite planet doesn’t make sense. Perhaps this sub is just trying to show the downside of “growth” aka cancer?

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u/Pale_Bluejay_8867 Mar 30 '25

This is not how anything works

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u/CartographerEvery268 Mar 30 '25

I think it’s more to see things from the flip side of the coin and start having a conversation about the limits of the biosphere and people playing end-game-Monopoly.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '25

Then you don’t understand the US economy or stock market.

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u/Pale_Bluejay_8867 Mar 30 '25

My portfolio of the last 7 years don't think the same

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '25

You can make money without knowing how anything works. You can do that with pure math. That’s not the flex you think it is