And given most people don't have a choice who they work for, a job is a job and rent needs paying, food buying, kids need clothing. This statement reeks of privilege.
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Auschwitz guards said same..
aug 3, 2025, 12:20 pm • 0 0 • view
Dear God ... you contribute whether or not it is your choice, just as conscripted soldiers contribute to the prosecution of a war.
aug 2, 2025, 9:39 am • 3 1 • view
Almost everyone has some level of choice: Reducing consumption to the bare minimum Reducing working hours Moving to a lower cost home Sharing work and parental commitments Growing some of one’s own food Acting regeneratively Choice is always there bsky.app/profile/juli...
aug 2, 2025, 9:50 am • 4 1 • view
Once again, presumptuous. Do you have the slightest notion of the numbers of people who have no more to cut, who can't afford to grow food or don't have that space. This is a very middle class take.
aug 2, 2025, 12:26 pm • 1 0 • view
That interpretation is a choice. I know of people who aren’t wealthy who grow together. If people ask for collaborative growing space, they get it. It’s often a mindset.
aug 2, 2025, 12:42 pm • 2 0 • view
Read an interesting paragraph by a small chicken farmer about how average people vastly underestimate the amount of land or space it takes to farm. The number of eggs from her farm wouldn't feed the town. She started calculating the number and space needed for pigs, all not near population cores.
aug 2, 2025, 12:49 pm • 0 0 • view
Except we're not talking about livestock farming here. It's amazing how much veg you can grow in a square metre bed. And then how differently you see what's for sale in the supermarket.
aug 2, 2025, 1:20 pm • 3 0 • view
yeah, but collaboration of ant sort is out of fashion now. It's only 'me me me first', and 'greed is good'...
aug 3, 2025, 12:24 pm • 0 0 • view
In which case who are these rebellious saviours supposed to be, have I misunderstood the article and your previous comment? I took it to mean (given the war analogy) that we should all be conscientious objectors, even though most of us have that stripped away thanks to systems like UC
aug 2, 2025, 12:34 pm • 0 0 • view
So a minimum wage cleaner on minimum wage struggling to feed their family working at an oil company is 'being a dick' according to the article It must be great for those that have the choice, for many there is no choice Such rhetoric isn't the way to convince people
aug 2, 2025, 10:01 am • 3 1 • view
I don't think he's talking about people on minimum wage.
aug 2, 2025, 5:39 pm • 0 0 • view
Exactly.
aug 2, 2025, 10:14 am • 2 0 • view
George doesn't realise he's one of these: "The lessons he has drawn are often striking: people are fundamentally egalitarian but are led to collapses by enriched, status-obsessed elites ..."
aug 2, 2025, 11:39 am • 1 0 • view