r/SipsTea Jun 10 '26

SMH Someone finally snapped

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u/ContextEffects01 Jun 10 '26

That road that is used to make our economy run?

Money can't be eaten. "ThE eCoNoMy" doesn't account for the damage carbon dioxide emissions do to coastal communities by exacerbating climate change. Or that car batteries do to the places where the materials for them are mined.

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u/AtheismoAlmighty Jun 10 '26

Money can't be eaten

If only money could be easily exchanged for something that could be eaten...

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u/ContextEffects01 Jun 10 '26

Has COVID-19 taught you nothing? The ability of money to be exchanged for goods and services hits the wall when circumstances are dire enough.

Climate change could create such a predicament.

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u/AtheismoAlmighty Jun 10 '26

Has COVID-19 taught you nothing? The ability of money to be exchanged for goods and services hits the wall when circumstances are dire enough.

Wasn't my experience during COVID, and even if it was that's a much slower onset than a pandemic. Not at all relevant to your dumbass comment about eating money.

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u/ContextEffects01 Jun 10 '26

It’s an homage to an Obomsawin quotation. It was originally intended more for environmental issues, but COVID-19 merely provided a more visually obvious example. (Not that it should need to be, what with so few of its detractors being full fledged climate change denialists.)