Reminds me of that Simpsons skit, where Bart and Lisa got a massive pile of candy, and they're so sick of candy because they ate so much, and Marge goes,
"kids! That pile is starting to smell. Are you gonna eat it?"
"nooooooh".
"Then we'll give it away to the neighborhood kids!"
"Nooooooh."
I'm probably massacring that skit but you know the one. 😁
At the very least it belongs within the scope of gambling addiction. I lost a friend to gambling. Gambling is one of the worst fucking addictions, because they will gamble until there is nothing left and then they die, and they take everyone around them down with them, they destroy everything for everyone. Another part of it is that if money is success is morality, you even get respected for being a good gambler.
But I'd go even further and claim that it is a structural consequence of the rules of the system. It happens by necessity, because that is what the logical conclusion of running the game will inevitably produce.
It is unsustainable, demands more of less, the more everything is improved and the more wealth is being produced, the more we see diminishing returns, because it demands ever more energy of ever diminishing resources, and thus produce ever diminishing returns, until there is nothing left.
Thanks for listening to my podcast The End Is Nigh, good night.
Great choice! Yeah you can't go wrong with Egyptian, it's always classy. Solid choice for a cat cult. Do her physical incarnations require many sacrifices to appease?
Yeah, like, the insurrectionists get payouts, do the guards that stood on the line to protect the nation's democratic institutions get something too or how does that work?
Gyllenhaal is magnificent in that. Such a great film...