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    1 年前

    Theres only one world pie, its deteriorating, and a tiny fraction of people own more than half of it?

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      The size of the pie depends on how you measure it (there’s less dodos now, but more water mains, which are also nice), but sure, roughly correct.

      That’s kind of a separate problem, though, isn’t it? The democracies of the world all have wealth inequality too. It’s not as bad as in most autocracies, and I hope eventually we’ll get classlessness, but we’re not there yet.

      (Autocracies with low wealth inequality were a thing for a while, too, but they haven’t lasted, and weren’t really supposed to be autocracies in the first place)

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        Its not really separate. As people fear they turn to the right, which births more autocracies and ironically makes the situation worse with their policies.

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          How do you explain periods where there was prosperity and an autocratic shift at the same time? Like Early Modern Europe or present-day China.

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            Are fear and prosperity exclusive? Or can your nation be prosperous while it is fearing climate change?

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              Hmm, I guess.

              That being said, where I live, there’s fear but it’s not really about climate change. Yet, this is a global trend. I don’t know, I guess I don’t really have a better idea, but just fear seems a bit too simple.