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Aug 28, 2023Liked by JM Smith

Agh! Keep trying to send something but it wants your email address. Help?!

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Aug 29, 2023Liked by JM Smith

Thanks JM, I always appreciate your posts & think of them a lot afterwards, but this one really hit home. Really feels like the days are shortening & darkening indeed.

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Take care and thanks for reading.

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To triangulate on exactly this point, everyone, read “Collapse: How Societies Choose To Fail Or Succeed” by Jared Diamond. It is crucial to understanding our current moment..

http://jareddiamond.org/Jared_Diamond/Collapse.html

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Once you see how our income-based laborforce really works (the fact that high profits depend on low wages), then you’ll finally understand why a digital system matching people to jobs, resources to communities, and daily production, consumption, and waste management operations to personal and professional demands is actually more sustainable and ethical than today’s global political economy, mainly because, compared to scientific-capitalism, scientific-socialism is a lot more democratic; it values and views our very basic, very intuitive belief “universal protections for all” as both a human need and an environmental right.

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