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Compared with taxes, at least this way everyone gets the same amount of meat independent of how wealthy they are.
Because the wealthy surely wouldn't be able to find a way around a supermarket meat restriction...
Sure, there are illegal ways around all laws. That does not make laws useless.
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In most countries, paying in cash is a thing. And I try to avoid paying with cards or e-payment as much as I can
I guess you haven't spent a lot of time in the Nordics. some random articles: https://sweden.se/life/society/a-cashless-society https://interestingengineering.com/sweden-how-to-live-in-the...
"SSB claims they want a less time-consuming way of collecting and analysing household consumption statistics in order to inform tax policy, social assistance and child allowance." Aka the more we know about you, the more efficiently we can create policies to control your behavior to our liking.
You're already being tracked by the grocery stores, wouldn't it be better to be tracked by someone who at least tries to have your best interests at heart vs. the grocery industry who just wants to sell you more?
“Hello #3576. You have reached your 1kg monthly limit of natural meat. Please consult the official list for alternatives.”
The comments objecting to this are bizarre. In the predatory capitalist US, the number of private companies- not subject to any real regulation, or supervision, or action on the part of citizens- that have exactly this data and more numbers literally in the thousands. And while a lot of attention is paid to government data collection, it is very hard for various parts of the government in the US to get this informati…
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Doing stuff like this today is going to be 100x better than what people 3 generations from now will have to live through thanks to climate change. The question is whether we’re willing to inconvenience ourselves today to protect future generations - and the answer is looking like no.
The answer is no for stupid solutions like tracking everybody’s meat consumption and a government limiting it. You will be swiftly told to fuck off (and rightly so). You need to get people on your side and contributing without massively changing their lifestyles, instead of alienating them. We need massive reductions in business contributions to climate change and we need investment in current clean energy solutions…
When the era of plenty that we currently live in ends, I feel that a lot of people are going to be in for a rude awakening.
The ideological left push us more and more towards a dystopic future. Which doesn't seem very distant.
The logical conclusion of their beliefs is to enslave people “for their own good”.
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Or people can just ask for help if they need it
The people in society who need help the most often have the least trust in government and don't have the means to understand and navigate programmes that could help them.
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You're already being tracked by the grocery stores, wouldn't it be better to be tracked by someone who at least tries to have your best interests at heart vs. the grocery industry who just wants to sell you more?
It doesn’t look like this will stop supermarkets from tracking people, this will just require them to share that information with the government, so this tracking will be in addition to the existing tracking, not replacing it. I would say that’s objectively worse.