kalaksi
Joined 3 years ago
Joined 3 years ago
If people have more money (or population grows) so that demand grows while supply stays the same, prices will rise and find a new equilibrium where people can again afford less and therefore buy less.
I'm not sure if it's an option to just leave most of the population to starve either so what's the alternative to some kind of social security or UBI? Long ago, a factory called "nature" used to provide relatively more of our needs, but that's not feasible today. But this quickly gets philosophical and political, of course.
In any case, finite resources are finite regardless if we have UBI or not.
By that logic, why not cut half of Finland's forests? I'm sure they won't mind since it's such a small area globally after all. And I think there are also other nuances than just net loss of forest.
I've tweaked my keyboard layout so that caps lock is left ctrl (with KDE this is just one click away in the settings). I never need caps lock anyway. That helps a lot with different keyboard shortcuts. The default ctrl position is awful.