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Do we need trucks transporting tons of sugary water all over the place?

Do we need to smelt energy intensive aluminium for useless trinkets and gadgets?

Do we need to work energy intensive steel for useless trinkets and gadgets?

Do we need disposables vapes?

Do we need the flood of useless junk on Amazon and Alibaba that breaks after a couple of uses?

Do we need fast-food places selling meat?

Do we need fast-food?

Do we need fast fashion?

Do we need all the ultra-processed foods like crisps, candies, cookies, etc.?

etc etc etc



So the question I want to know is what the fuck do we even need in this world?

I think the answer quickly becomes nothing. Just eat food, sleep somewhere safe and wait for something to kill you.


We need shelter, food and a place to cook our food.

We need to be healthy, so we need medical help and assistance.

We need education.

We need friends and communities.

We need entertainment.

We need hope in the future.


> I think the answer quickly becomes nothing

That's exactly what I'm talking about lmao, people like you just completely lack the imagination, as if uber food delivery, 4 hours of netflix a day and buying a new iphone every year was the end game of humanity...

What about job security, healthcare, a community, a fulfilling job, &c. ? None of this requires soon to be e-waste tech gadgets, cheap cloth made from the most vile fabric known to mankind, huge SUV doing 0-60mph in 3s

Sure we got saved from polio and famines, instead we now die from lack of exercise, depression and obesity, that's not even the worst part, we're doing this while permanently fucking up our planet.




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