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RE: Production, labor, and poverty
There are no easy answers. Education, education, education. Spreading knowledge about how to live responsibly. On how to live content. Striving for ever more profit does not make happier, AND it's destructive.
Apart from that, organize the sane.
Apart from that, no idea. I'm rather pessimistic (but of course, that must not serve as an excuse to do nothing).
so you think it is the fault of the individual and when they are educated they can just choose to stop wasting so many resources?
Part of the answer is individual education, yes. A society is the sum of its induviduals. So change at the individual level will - if achieved in sufficient numbers - change a society. That's the basic grassroots concept.
Of course it's not the whole answer, as you would like to understand me. But this at least I can influence, while I alone cannot change a large system.
if you could educate everyone on one topic, what would it be?
one topic only? Damn.
Probably: How to find scientific fact without being influenced by politicians and media. Once you know what the problem is, you feel much more compelled to act accordingly.
science itself is as human as we are, it is simply a tool. We do not find facts with science, we find approximations that we deem good enough to work with. Nobody does this the same way, and teaching them to do it the same way would impede progress more than it would help it imo.
If I were to educate people on one thing myself it would probably be the very basis of economic systems, like how the monopoly of violence, movement of resources, etc, actually operates. From there they would know what needs to be done to stop it. We have so very few years left before climate change devastates us and we already have 20 million people dying of poverty every year, what could the state and capitalists do if the workers figured out why?