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Dead shopping malls are coming back. But not the way you’d expect. (This is about taxes).
See that empty shopping mall over there? The one that died during Covid 19? It has a huge footprint, but generates little to no tax revenue to fund the city. Not property taxes, not sales tax on purchases, not even income taxes for the state. It’s like a black hole.... A bad solution is bad, then, because it acts destructively upon the larger patterns in which it is contained. It acts destructively upon those patterns, most likely, because it is formed in ignorance or disregard of them.... I appreciate this clarity. Although this makes sense in the "capitalism ftw" I think this is where unconscious capitalism is actually immature, and in the long run unsustainable. Essentially bc of short-term thinking.... Thanks y’all, I wanted to come back to this and mention that I’ve been using the "let’s aim to protect 80%+ of the Earth’s land for environmental stewardship" frame since this convo and people are loving it.... such a good point! I just want to add that it's possible to frame creative thinking as the "explore" side of the explore/exploit dynamic. And by its nature, exploring is going to appear less worthwhile than exploiting by most metrics.... - onIf people cannot change the commodities society depends on, then protest alone will never produce lasting change.by
I don't disagree with a word you say. But, I will point out that a 24 pack of double-roll bamboo toilet paper from Amazon is nearly 4x the price of the same number of double rolls of Kroger store brand ($28 vs. $7.50).... As an architect and student of human nature I have thought long and hard on this subject. I do not think it is so much deciding who gets to be the arbiter of the way things are as it needs to be How are we behaving that is contrary to our and the planets best interest.... - KC...
It would mean we’d have to stop building for profit cycles and start building for people. Right now we design everything — infrastructure, institutions, even relationships — around what survives the next quarter, not the next century. A 500 year mindset forces humility.... ON THE CAPACITY OF FINITE EARTH TO SUPPLY INFINITE RESOURCES
One Word: Physics More words: The Laws of Thermodynamics trump Trump and all anti-science claimants. Dynamic Equilibrium. No economic system can exceed finite resources or violate the laws of nature, i.e., the laws of physics. Contrary to common belief.... I want to share and learn about the things in life that keeps smiles on our faces. I want to learn and spread the truth about the water we drink, the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the items in which we clothe our bodies. If you want to go fast, then go alone.... If I had a trillion dollars, I wouldn’t try to “fix the whole world.” I’d build something small, sane, and human‑scale — a community designed for honesty, peace, and real connection.... - Fredwage...
I would reframe this dialog. In the big symmetries, humans travails are a thrashing calidescope of energies trying to evolve into greater complexity and energies trying to succumb to entropy. Two Arrows of Time. We humans have an impending reckoning of choices.... - Eric Stevens...
The Material Economics Doctrine
The bioeconomy isn’t a utopian idea. It’s a response to a system that got more expensive and more fragile. Freight costs rose. Insurance rose. Inventory ties up capital. Overseas labor isn’t cheap anymore. Climate disasters aren’t rare events....