• Dasus@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    Can’t help but agree with you.

    In English they say “ignorance is bliss” but in Finnish our idiom is from the same origin in Greek (through ages) and IIRC, we’re closer to the original translation; “tieto lisää tuskaa”, “knowledge increases agony”.

    My knowledge of how naive he’s being is increasing my agony at the moment. I wish I could just live in whatever world he lives in where he can homestead some potatoes and chickens and still utilise products like smartphones and high-speed internet and “just take what he wants”.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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      16 days ago

      Hes also completely willfully blind to human nature.

      As if greed and a desire for power is gonna magically disappear because money disappears. You’ll just end up with people hording access to resources, and the creation of a underclass of people who will be forced to work the hoarders resources under threat of beatings, deaths, or maiming of their loved ones.

      and we know this, because we have documented history of this already being done, in the past, multiple times.

      but it doesnt matter, as long as they get to live their carefree hippy commune fantasy.