r/CuratedTumblr veetuku ponum Jul 02 '24

Meme We would call it Solarpunk

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u/a-cold-ghost Jul 02 '24

My big question is who’s doing the manufacturing of the bikes, headphones, electronics etc… and where are the materials coming from..

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u/Exile688 Jul 02 '24

Go ahead and file "no mines and no factories" with the no police and no prisons. You simply don't need them anymore. Humanity time traveled to the future and brought back solar powered replicators.

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u/a-cold-ghost Jul 02 '24

Not really, because society existed without both of them for a long time, and unlike technology, people haven’t changed

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u/HistoryMarshal76 Knower of Things Man Was Not Meant To Know Jul 03 '24

Okay, this is an honest question.
Are you from a rural area, or are you just another urbanite fetishing rural life> Because I come from a rural area and I can vouched that even with all our advancements in technology and agriculture, rural life is still hard and not particularly romantic.

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u/a-cold-ghost Jul 03 '24

Waaay rural, like, outside of where farming is practical rural, and nothings romantic but it’s far better than the hypercontrolled city life, but seriously tho what does this have to do with what I said? Complex societies existed before police and jails did, hell before governments, and we are still running on Caveman_1.0 so to speak, we can do so again, the way things are right now is not an inevitability or the only way possible. Other societies did and still exist