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The fact that the human race sees scarcity as a good thing....
Is everything I need to justify misanthropy in its most literal form (Hatred of humanity)
Well, we do label everything nice as "exclusive", as in excluding others from ownership. So how nice things are deemed to be seems to be fuelled by pure spite for other people. You can't have it, so it's "exclusive", meaning good and desirable. Our values in modern societies are just awful and misanthropic.
It's not so much people being attracted to scarcity, but decades of diamond industry propaganda having an effect on our culture. Even now there's an active effort being put by the diamond industry into keeping natural diamonds the "forever gem" while artificial gems made in a lab are being portrayed as "everyday gems", as in less prestigious.
Scarcity of what? Food, water, sanitary infrastructure, shelter, healthcare? Yeah that is bad.
Scarcity of pretty rocks, some people want to wear as accessoires? Fine whatever. Also i wouldn't mind the mining of scarce and pretty rocks, if it wouldn't go with the destruction of the environment and human rights abuses.
"Fine whatever" until someone thinks that the pretty rock that we used to base the entire financial system around is what we still should base it around again, despite the fact that the whole economy could crash if someone digs a hole in the right place or develops some new refining technology.
The whole economy has already crashed multiple times, based on frivolous financial speculation on a massive scale with fiat currency. Gold, which is not a rock by the way, is at the very least finite so it inhibits the ability of these people to print fake money and burn it up, destroying people's lives in the process. I'm not saying a gold standard would be preferable, but I do believe the question to be far more nuanced than "idiots wanna base money off of rocks, instead of just feels as we do currently".
Did you really just do an 'um askshully' because I called gold a rock?
So typical for you to just ignore the whole content of the comment pointing out your asinine argument thinking you're conveying some deep reasoning, just in order to be able to reply to a tiny shred of it like an internet smart ass. Just Squid things, it turns out it's useless to hope for you to say anything non-pathetic, that's just who you keep insisting on being. Good for you big guy! Merry Christmas.
That escalated quickly.
Just curious: was the passive-aggressive "Merry Christmas" because I'm Jewish?
I was as unaware of your self-proclaimed Jewish heritage, just like I was of your supposed terminal illness you hid behind the last time. You sure seem to like to view yourself as a missile-seeking target it seems. With an uncanny ability to lower the bar to boot. Kudos.
I never claimed to have a terminal illness. Why are you lying? If you want to mock my chronic illnesses, at least don’t lie about them.
And my Jewishness is such a secret that just clicking on my profile will show you that I mod c/jewish.
It’s just possible you know less about me than you think you do. Too late to ask me about anything though. You enjoy the imaginary person you've built up in your head though.
God you're pathetic, and have a short memory. Here's your comment from not too long ago when you wrote that you're gonna be dead in four years. That's terminal by any definition. At least try to keep your lies straight, you being the mod of c/Jewish doesn't in anyway imply that you're not lying.... Again. Just pitiful.
Yes. I do hope to seek euthanasia in four years.
You do understand that non-terminal people in daily chronic pain also seek euthanasia, yes?
And you do understand that unless you specifically mention that, saying that you'll be dead in four years can only be reasonably interpreted as you having a terminal illness, right? Hence, saying that I'm a liar when I made the only reasonable interpretation of information provided by yourself, is bad faith at best. Do you not see that? I'm not your parent, I'm not aware of your deeply held thoughts, and I'm frankly not interested enough to investigate it on my own. I hadn't checked your profile because I don't care what you mod, why would I you narcissistic weirdo?
So you're being purposefully vague and express yourself in a way where you obviously want to, need to feel like a victim of a slight from strangers on the internet. This isn't healthy behavior dude, take a deep breath and have a look at how you're behaving. You don't need to be a perpetual victim. Just be yourself, it can hardly be worse than whatever the fuck this garbage behavior is. You're spreading your misery, it's just bad all around for everyone involved. I won't ever be engaging with your rubbish again, it somehow manages to perpetually be sadder than last time. Get a grip.
You could have asked if you actually wanted to know. You decided to assume instead. Not my fault.
Scarcity of anything is a bad idea. Shouldn't we WANT to live in a land of plenty?
Well, if we had less oil, gas and coal it could make things a lot better with climate change.
Abundance can also lead to wastefullness. But generally speaking it just doesn't matter if pretty rocks are scarce or not, if they don't have any value in fulfilling human needs.
Incorrect. Scarcity refers to quantity, not quality.