Is this an actual thing those researchers say? I've never heard a person with higher education saying shit like this.

Darwin and Wallace both hated that shit.

Poverty is a social construct, starvation is not. Also wealth hoarding has been a thing since... Well, since agriculture got started, so it's not unique to the post-industrial world. Kings didn't become Kings because they were nice and shared their wealth equitably.

Central bank monetary policy requires that we pay 2% more for goods every year as technology makes things cheaper and we exclude asset price inflation. They construct a wall of debt via low interest rates for inelastic goods like housing in order to provide a windfall to boomers in order to force the prices of goods upwards, every new mortgage new money supply being created.

That wall of debt that is gatekeeping inelastic shelter is what poverty looks like, prices can't rise without providing new money supply, and some poor smuck holding that IOU for the first movers to consume. Blaming the rich, whose nominal asset value is inflated by this system, is a naive view; they are simply being spoon fed wealth in a desperate attempt to get them to consume a portion of it. Every bailout for any type of correction caused by an error or oversight in the system is then funneled back to them as wages are debased.

This likely explains the fanaticism around Bitcoin and gold, I think we can all see who is served by the existing system, and its definitely not the poor.

I don't think I disagree with the point being made, but I can't say I like the way it's being made. I don't care about her PhD and I don't think it's particulary interesting to call a strawman a fascist.

I mean why? Why is not survival of the fittest? It's simply a matter of definition of "fit". 🤷‍♂️ If the fittest means you have rich ancestors, then so be it, in some context. If it means being able to wrestle someone to the ground, that's fine in another context. We live in many different contexts, as humans. It's not black and white...

good message, but bad post:

• climate has nothing to do with the rest
• poverty existed pre-indistrialisation
• poverty kills people in non-fascist organisations
  • fascists always promised to solve poverty (german fascism = "national socialism")

selective pressure doesn't care if you consider it "survival of the fittest" or not.

"social construct this social construct that" oh let me just critique poverty away since its not you know... a social reality...

Maybe climate science and evolution doesn't have that much to say about vocabulary of other disciplines.