• stoy@lemmy.zip
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    Sometimes people here are just too eager for societal collapse.

    I like having running water, hot and cold, safe and clean enough to drink it.

    I like having a toilet that I just flush my crap away.

    These will no longer be available during a societal collapse.

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      When people are at the point where they are literally dying because they can’t afford to live, you have to say there’s not much else to lose.

      The powerful just try and keep that balance of having enough people fall into poverty to keep everyone else in line, and avoiding having too many people in poverty so that we don’t all eat them like we’re supposed to.

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      Have you looked at the current political climate? That’s under threat as-is, might as well go down swinging

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        I agree that the US has a problem with water quality in parts, and that I am quite privileged to be living in Sweden in this regard.

        My point was that you should have a plan to rebuild the stuff that will break before pushing the button.