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I don't really mind water futures, as long as the nation I'm in makes it easy and affordable to access clean drinking water. If the nation becomes to much of a dystopia I will just use my most powerful vote "my feet" and take my labor to some other nation. People throughout history have done this for millennia. Just make sure you have a exit plan and easily transferable wealth storages.

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That's great you have a plan but this is not really an option for much of the world's population and perhaps they should not suffer lack of water because of this.

I thought so, but the recent travel restrictions poured a lot of cold water on the ease of that possibility.

> If the nation becomes to much of a dystopia I will just use my most powerful vote "my feet" and take my labor to some other nation

At some point you might run out of nations to go to.

I consider the place I currently live in (subjectively of course) to be the best in the world. The problem with that, with being at the top of the world, is that there is nowhere to run. If things get worse here, everywhere else is most likely even worse. So, for better or worse, I have to stay and defend my rights here.

Holy crap man for thirty seconds try to think about how you don’t represent the majority of the people. You know what, go trade water futures, you’re born for it.

This topic should be a collective home run for ethics, but the sheer stupidity of humans knows no bounds.

Sometimes you just need to call the antisocial personality disorders out (one whatever spectrum - narcissistic, sociopathic, borderline). A lot of the behavior of these disorders are tolerated if you are mostly harmless, but don’t think we can’t spot you.

Bunch of jerkoffs want to speculate on water, give me a fucking break.

The world is not a fair place and I got lucky that I was born in western Europe and did not made to many bad choices in life.

I have talked with people about rising house prices(because of the low interest rates) and stagnated wages for blue-collar workers here in the west, how most of us in our late 20s or younger will probably never have a proper pension. How cruel and unfair this hyper capitalist system really is, how we are quickly devolving back into techno feudalism. How the youth is spending their future income by accruing massive debts to buy the latest gadgets and shit. Reality is people don't fucking care, people don't want to care, they look at you as if your some kind of conspiracy theorist.

Once I discovered people don't really care about those structural problems, was the moment I started putting some money into a exit plan.

Immigration to another nation is extremely difficult.

Making water tradeable easier should make it easier to provide easy and affordable access to it. Same as for any other commodity.

It also eases restrictions to water access, in some distant future

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