Every time I have to walk through the city center I get sad and angry.
Do we need so many stores that offer the same products, is it worth to push anything that isn't focused on consuming something away just for this?
And do we need so many variants of the same product?
What difference does it make if your toilet paper is super soft or superultramega soft. What difference does it make if your phones processor has 2.8 or 2.83 GHz.
It feels all wrong.
@gigabecquerel u a communist now?
Do you walk thru an ecosystem and are like "why are there so many fkn useless species of beetle?! Isn't one enough?"
What do you think people believe abt ur hobby and its usefulness?
My tip: marvel at the blooming buzzing confusion of human wanting, fractally differentiating in a self-avoiding production
@gigabecquerel @niplav the life of so many beetle is earth ecosystem equilibrium.
Cant say the same of human products. We're too excessive.
Smith is right, the human species is a virus. They spread, invade every place, and when it's exhausted, they move to invade somewhere else.
@niplav @gigabecquerel we're definitely not in an economic equilibrium.
@f4grx @gigabecquerel interesting claim! Would you coaim that undisturbed ecosystems are more in equilibrium than curdent markets?
(dunno how I'd define that)
@niplav @gigabecquerel this is from the top of my head of course, but I believe so. Human societies are all but natural.
@f4grx @gigabecquerel aren't machines usually only in equilibrium?
@f4grx @gigabecquerel hm, maybe more complex systems take longer to reach equilibrium.. M
@f4grx @gigabecquerel average path-length to epsilon-perturbed ensemble of path-dependent equilibria maybe
@gigabecquerel okay, I didn't know this was abt difficult choice
Yeah there's the problem of humans overanalyzing trivial choices, randomization helps
@gigabecquerel but then again I really care abt differences in products whoch other people don't (I spent ~6 hours recently on finding the right lightbulbs!)
@gigabecquerel similar for others in other categories I would guess, even (epspecially maybe?) printers
@niplav I don't think so, no.
INot saying it should be illegal, I just don't understand it.
I don't know the ""purpose"" of every beetle, but I'm aware that there are many co-dependencies and that one could not live without the other.
However I, personally, feel happier with fewer choices.
Not fewer "Catogories", but fewer choices per "category".
One or two brands of spaghetti, not five. Four, five different printers, not 50.
It feels like a chore having to select the cheapest / " best"