• edible_funk@sh.itjust.works
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    18 hours ago

    Yep this will be the fourth or fifth record breaking upward transfers of wealth I’ve lived through. I really don’t want to live through another.

    • sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      5 hours ago

      The ‘good’ news is you might not live through the next one.

      Food.

      Yeah our entire modern agricultural system is basically a process of squirting refined oil into the ground and then food comes out.

      Drive up the precursor cost?

      Well a whole bunch of that process breaks, and that’s not even considering the oil burned to move things from one place to another.

      Even if you solve that problem: Climate’s broke, ain’t gonna fix it at this point. That’ll fuck up food production massively as well.

      Population control (culling) via food prices doubling or tripling every few years, and the chaos that results from that.

      They’re hoping enough of us will die before we actually try to eat them.

      I suggest making what stockpile of edible reserves you can now, keep cycling through it, eat a bit of it, replace more of it, etc.

      We got the worst el nino in recorded history, AMOC is currently giving out, as is the ‘doomsday’ glacier… and roughly 1/5 to 1/4 of the world’s oil just stopped, it’ll take years to recover from the damage thats already done.

      Everything that has happened so far will be a footnote compared to what happens next.

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      18 hours ago

      At this point many people won’t. Hard to squeeze blood out of a dried, overworked, malnutritioned poisoned and diseased husk of a laid off worker.

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        16 hours ago

        Can’t wait until enough people are unemployed that nothing is stopping them from marching in the streets.

        Remember what happened during covid layoffs? People brought tents to the protests and camped out for months…

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          15 hours ago

          Wait, I don’t remember that happening during Covid. I remember some years before, that happened as part of the 99% anti Wall Street protests… which did nothing.