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    2427 days ago

    I learned from game theory that these situations are the equivalent of the prisoner’s dilemma.

    In the prisoner’s dilemma, in the case where you only play the game once, cooperation has a worse outcome for you, regardless of what your opponent does. It is a dominated option. Only in the case where the game is repeated many times, and where both players are paying attention to their opponent, only in that case does cooperation become a useful option.

    When people recycle, we are choosing to cooperate. But as nobody is paying attention to what we’re doing, it is always the dominated option. We end up having to work more, and we don’t get better results. And then we inevitably get huge betrayals.

    But that doesn’t mean that we shouldn’t recycle. It simply means the game has shitty rules. That’s why responsible government regulations are essential for environmentalism, if we actually want to see results.

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      527 days ago

      Plastic recycling is literally pointless though.

      It’s a farce to pretend that plastic can be reused/sustainable in any way. Most “recycled” plastic ends up just shipped off to pollute developing countries in Africa and Asia.

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    827 days ago

    I’d allow it if, say, we seized 90% of each owner’s wealth and invested it into clean and renewable tech.

    I’m very reasonable like that!

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    427 days ago

    Mario bros! RISE UP!

    Let the rich fear us, let the exploiters cower in terror. Systemic change requires dramatic catalysts, the money tree needs to be ripped at its roots and burned with revolutionary intent.

    No longer will we bow down to the ‘Almighty Dollar’

    A cancer can only be ‘cured’ if it’s completely removed and destroyed. Fuck Cancer, Fuck the Rich