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Surprise! A captioned screenshot isn't actually true!
Watch the video and you'll see she is actually saying:
"You need to start calculating sustainability because the Earth isnt an infinite resource to trash"
Progressive Leftist here, I obviously don't support the neoliberal late-stage capitalist hellscape we live in...but I also don't support rage-baited disinformation.
She's not saying we need to monetize breathing. Think about how ridiculous that statement sounds...it's because it's precisely intended to evoke rage and anger. She's saying that we need to protect our planet.
This is Lindsay Hooper from Cambridge's Institute for Sustainability Leadership, while I don't agree with her advising how to maintain a capitalist mode of production, I do agree that we have to understand how precious our planet's resources are and continuing as we are is unsustainable and bring about ruinous destruction.
HandFireWeapon
Germanswisscheese
Not just that capitalists assume that nature is free, they assume that the system is *worthless* until it is improved into something that generates profit. If you bulldoze a mangrove forest to replace it with shrimp aquaculture, you'll have to build a sea wall to prevent flooding in the region because that forest was providing that service. It's unfortunate we have to do this, but you need some kind of model to give these systems worth, ortherwise they assign it a default value of nothing.
PunnyTiger
nestle thinks they should be able to bottle local water and take all avaiable water, then sell it to locals for a dollar a bottle
WigsDannyboy
if you want capitalists to value the land water and air ... make them pay for it! Problem is the capitalists will pass that cost to the consumers. The consumers will also have to consider how their choices will affect the planet. The Earth's land, water and air have a value that likely surpasses all capital ever created and will ever be created. How do you place a value on that?
IDontKnowWhatToDoAnymoreAndImTired
There is a LOT of this sort of misinformation going around, and a lot of people on here accept it uncritically for the same reason the right swallows misinformation: it reinforces what they WANT to believe is true. There's a post on here right now where people are just repeating the most obviously fake information about data centers because they WANT to believe the worst.
Yellowchopsticks
What's wrong with monetizing air? If we run out, we can just vacuum up air from other planets.
torp
Sure Musk and Musk like already have a plan to sabotage the atmosphere and sell air.
MightyIink
We live in a world where robots have more rights and financial assistance than humans do.
blaghart
We live in a world where dead people have more rights and financial assistance than women do.
idiotsonfire
Hey, if we're looking for people to bring to the gallows to improve worldwide welfare for everyone, the WEF is a great place to start.
RyanH42
"Think about how ridiculous that statement sounds."
Is it that ridiculous?
TheOvy
Terminally online leftists fall for the exact same ragebait tactics as the terminally online alt-right. Never trust a source-less twitter caption. Never trust twitter, really.
tinydog
Thank you.
INeverReadTheTOS
Do you really think people would do that? Just go on the internet and tell lies?
RhymingEverything
>But when you share to discredit it
>You actually spread that shit
>It's bad for that purpose
>This happens with flat earthers
spinymouse
I'm not sure capitalist leaders would listen if it weren't in the shape of "exploiting resources beyond sustainability will hit your bottom line". Costs to ecosystems, people in more affected countries, and whatever the future consequences of our current consumption aren't reflected in the price of things. Talking about how this isn't fair won't get her very far.
psugab
Go to 1:35 in the video and listen to what she says. She is talking about how lack of water could cause issues where it's an essential input such as in manufacturing. She's talking about their bottom line and future growth/sales.
Mikeiller
Spaceballs is not meant to be a guideline for anyone
NoneOfYoBiseniss
The sad part is no-one would be surprised if this were true.
donorkort
How are you doubling down on this?
katoutwo8
She's saying that we all have a right to these things and these things should not be free....to companies.
INeverReadTheTOS
Wild how she's saying literally the exact opposite of what that Xitter post has misquoted her saying.
ArcUlfr
Xitter, spreading misinformation? How can that be?
People need to leave that damned platform to the Nazis. It's a Nazi bar now.
BeTheFirstToComment
The biggest problem with Socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money.
Take away private ownership and people will find others ways to gather desirables, including corrupt means.
It’s human nature to collect and save and to prioritize one’s own over others. It’s a basic human survival instinct that doesn’t allow socialism to work.
Socialists believe others are corrupted because they understand and thrive in capitalism. Learn those skills and you’ll thrive.
reichtwinglunatic
yeah, that's why the countries with the biggest social safeties and programs are bankrupt hellholes. Like, scandinavia and the likes.
OwlFarm
The biggest problem with socialism is idiots using strawmen to try and explain something they don't understand.
spittleteets
Everything you rely on in society is provided by everyone else's money (clean water, roads, electricity, sanitation, etc). Everything Jeff Bezos needs to operate Amazon relies on everyone else's money, even more so.
BeTheFirstToComment
Waste management and Republic are private sanitation companies that customers pay for, along with power companies. Government’s role is to simply do those things for people they can’t do for themselves. Socialism treats people as if they can’t do things for themselves. Many in government also wish to use socialism to control society and those with in it. People are corrupt, socialism doesn’t fix that.