On top of that, sharing 1 washing machine for 20 fucking people?
In what world do the people writing this live? Have they never lived in an apartment building with shared laundry? The machines are never kept clean because people are fucking animals.
“It is important to understand that the DLS represents a minimum floor for decent living. It does not represent a an aspirational standard and certainly does not represent a ceiling. However, it is also a level of welfare not currently achieved by the vast majority of people. A new paper by Hoffman et al finds that 96.5 percent of people in low- and middle-income countries are deprived of at least one DLS dimension…we can conclude that 6.4 billion people, more than 80% of the world’s population, are deprived of DLS.”
The authors are not suggesting that everyone be forced on DLS at gunpoint. They are suggesting an absolute bare minimum standard that the overwhelming majority of people on Earth do not yet even have. Quite obviously any excess production could and would be used to increase standard of living.
They live in a world where 700 million people are currently starving. Do you think you care about the washing machines if your children have nothing to eat?
You could double everything in this post too and that’s only 60% consumption.
20 m² of personal living space + 20 m² for every 2 ppl as bathroom / kitchen
4200 kcal/day
2800 kWh/year, but this already includes public services (education/healthcare)
1 washing machine per 10 ppl
2.4 kg clothing / 6 months
wear tops for 1.5 days and bottoms for 7.5 days without washing
1 laptop per 2 people with a yearly power consumption of 62 kWh. (bizzarely they talk about an 800 MHz computer and seem to confuse HDD and RAM). If your gaming computer used 400 W you could use it for 300 hr/year.
That seems a lot more reasonable to me and we still come in under carrying capacity
I’m gonna need a lot more than 10 square meters of space if everyone is changing their shirts twice a week. Yuck.
On top of that, sharing 1 washing machine for 20 fucking people?
In what world do the people writing this live? Have they never lived in an apartment building with shared laundry? The machines are never kept clean because people are fucking animals.
What a stupidly naive study lmao.
ITT: people who didn’t even glance at the study.
Quoting from the study:
The authors are not suggesting that everyone be forced on DLS at gunpoint. They are suggesting an absolute bare minimum standard that the overwhelming majority of people on Earth do not yet even have. Quite obviously any excess production could and would be used to increase standard of living.
They live in a world where 700 million people are currently starving. Do you think you care about the washing machines if your children have nothing to eat?
The state of my washing machine doesn’t have to change if we just tax billionaires.
You could double everything in this post too and that’s only 60% consumption.
That seems a lot more reasonable to me and we still come in under carrying capacity