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"There's No Ethical Consumption Under Capitalism" is a Cop-Out (opens the original)
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Criticise the consumption of a specific product, and you may hear the phrase “There’s no ethical consumption under capitalism”. Ostensibly, it’s a critique of the injustice inherent in the production of all goods, but in practice it gets used to parry any criticism of the way we consume. Rather than argue against the specific criticism made, people will flip the board over and label the whole mission of ethical consumption a dead end. It’s a forcefield that terminates inquiry - because if all co
What to Do If You Plan on Living Forever (opens the original)
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I think there is a good chance you and I will live for centuries, not decades. This sounds unjustifiable and insane to anyone with their feet firmly planted on the ground, but as I’ve argued elsewhere, we are not standing on firm ground. Technological progress has made the world exceptionally weird, and the only future we can sensibly rule out is the one where things stay the same for the next 50 years. Since 2022, we have gone from having a quaint chatbot that becomes incoherent after 5 message
The Danger of Being Right (opens the original)
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I was right about Covid early. Not to brag or anything, but I was one of those people in March 2020 saying that it was serious and would be around for years. Might be strange to hear now, but this was a weird and fringe view at the time, and I was side-eyed accordingly. Most people didn’t think the disease was dangerous, and most thought it would blow over within a couple of weeks. My peers would scoff and say it was just the flu, insinuating I was getting caught up in apocalyptic delusions. Of
How Many People Did Brexit Kill? (opens the original)
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I recently saw a staggering statistic - Brexit slowed economic growth in the UK so much, that we’re now 6 - 8% smaller than we would’ve been had we stayed in the EU. This is a sad and devastating number, and my immediate thought after reading was what any well adjusted person would’ve thought: I wonder how many people that’s killed?When we think about economic impact we tend to think of things in terms of struggle rather than outright deaths. People lose jobs, they lose luxuries, they endure the
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