Post #3111833
2026-05-11 06:08 UTC
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@Tiresia@slrpnk.net 2026-05-11 10:32
\> highest standards of living in human history \> checks inside \> highest suicide rates in human history, extreme loneliness, people aren't having children because they feel there is no point bringing them into this world
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@punksnotdead@slrpnk.net 2026-05-11 09:22
Definitely nothing to do with massive advances in science, medicine, and socialist thinking in the 19th and 20th centuries... No, it must be the hierarchies! Forget that science is fundamentally based upon peer review and rational authority, which is a rejection of traditional hierarchy. That _definitely_ has nothing to do with it.
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@punkisundead@slrpnk.net 2026-05-11 07:28
Standard of living is just a made up metric that only increases because it exludes so many things from it. When I read about it on Wikipedia it becomes clear to me that its a capitalist inventiom or atleast serves really well as capitalist propaganda. Things that somehow dont get included but definitely reduce my "standard of living": - extinxtion of plant and animal species that I will never be able to wittness, also knowing others will also never be able to wittness - steady increase of armed conflict and yearly rrlated deaths in recent years - fucking cars everywhere - increased control of the state and billionaires of every part of my life - continued colonial exploitation - absolute inaction of " those gentleman" when it comes to stopping the current genocides happening world wide - ... - feels free to add to the list
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@volore@scribe.disroot.org 2026-05-11 06:26
>the highest standard of living in human history for how many? and at whose expense?