• @Rufio@lemm.ee
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      151 year ago

      I mean, in the scenario described where we literally can’t grow food in the surrounding land, it’s hard to say what the political landscape or legal institutions even looks like at that point.

      • @Cybermass@lemmy.world
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        31 year ago

        Once people start going hungry and killing rich people then suddenly the rich will wake up and realize they have to do something, hopefully by then it’s not too late.

    • Hup!
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      31 year ago

      Mankind is roughly 9 meals between civilization and chaos.

            • @SCB@lemmy.world
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              51 year ago

              Honestly, wood isn’t that valuable.

              Also we have an insane shortage of housing

                  • @Ryantific_theory@lemmy.world
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                    31 year ago

                    The issue isn’t really supply though, it’s that houses are held as investments, not as property, and it massively inflated their value. That’s created a lot of pressures that benefit from desperate homebuyers.

                    Twenty percent of homes last quarter were bought by investors compared to ten percent in 2010. Can you guess what happens when a fifth of home purchases are intended to generate more profit? Rent goes up, houses are flipped and sold at even higher rates, and homebuyers are squeezed further out by deeper wallets. New home builders intentionally reduced production because letting demand grow makes people more likely to purchase new homes, which are sold at a premium over existing homes. We’re manufacturing just over half of the homes per month that we did back in 2005, and whenever sales are too slow (like in 2018) they just reduce completions until the market is forced to buy at the prices they want.

                    The moment housing became an investment instead of a place to live it steadily screwed over the market. If too many residential homes are released onto the market investment groups lose potential profit, but strategic purchasing and selling can maintain rising prices and steady profits. Not to mention that the collective investment spending of a couple hundred billion a year on buying up residential properties has a vested interest to ensure the supply doesn’t ever catch up and reduce the value of their investment.

                    Basically the housing market has been a disaster for decades, and it happily continues downhill.

              • @ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works
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                11 year ago

                wood isn’t that valuable.

                Bitch what?? You think trees aren’t valuable??

                Just because a corporate asshole doesn’t put high monetary value to fuckin trees don’t mean they aren’t the literal biggest focal point for almost all human advancement.

                Nigga you think we’d be even close to where we are without wood?

                Not just that but wood is a nonrenewable fuckin resource bitch. It don’t come back in our lifetime dumbass. Yeah it’s fucking natural but so is me ripping your asshole out your mouth bitch.

                • @SCB@lemmy.world
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                  -21 year ago

                  Some trees are valuable, especially at certain times of year. Wood is hardly scarce.

                  You seem to not understand the difference between important and valuable. Grasshoppers are important, but not very valuable.

                  • @ThatWeirdGuy1001@sh.itjust.works
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                    11 year ago

                    Tell all that to deforestation bruh. Tell that to the fuckin Amazon which is being cut and burned for fuckin money. Tell that to the trees that take centuries to fuckin grow meanwhile we cuttin them down by the millions.

                    If you ain’t seein it yet you’ll see it soon, but we need these fuckin things.