blakemiller

@blakemiller@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this what every election is like?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Trump is representative of the systemic issues America has left unresolved

  Him and literally every other politician, so thanks for defining politics for us. The problem is that enough people think he’s the right solution. Oh boy are they wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is currency so essential?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And we exist to extract value from agriculture. We’ve developed to a point where it’s both possible and desirable to live in close proximity to one another. It’s possible because ag is so successful and scalable, and it’s desirable because new opportunities are possible when everything is nearby. So that’s the trade off you made. To afford the city life, you accrue value through city opportunities and you trade it in exchange for the goods from service providers. The alternative is that you run your own farm. Ask yourself how many farmers you know! And you’ll see which decision most people make.

  All to say, we shouldn’t think of value extraction as a uniformly bad practice. We all do it and we need to do it because each square acre of land doesn’t provide the same goods and services.