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    1 year ago

    I’m very well aware of what people need to survive, having lacked all of them individually at times…

    it would take years of companies continuing to manufacture and try to push these items on us.

    Their valuations would tank after 1 quarter and demand reorganization or bankruptcy. I know I would pull my money out asap - it would be a race to the bottom. They also wouldn’t be manufacturing stock for years and years when they can’t even get stock off the shelf. The only major exception to that is the MIC.

    What would an in-between look like?

    An exodus from cities, adoption of traditional farming methods decentralizing the food supply chain, housing detached from markets, the end of bullshit jobs, end of consumerism, free family planning services.

    I’m pretty far on the doomer side of things lately, but iirc I used to link this to help people break free from capitalist realism when it was published 8 years ago: https://crimethinc.com/tce

    I think it can be a valuable starting point for these thought experiments.