MONEY
The Future of Civilization, Consciousness, Technology, and Human Organization.
Money isn’t value — it’s a bridge. Beyond hustle and accumulation lies presence, sufficiency, and conscious living.
Link below 👇
#Money #Consciousness #Minimalism #Philosophy #MindfulLiving #Sufficiency
The Blunt Edge of Ockham's Razor. What are the risks?
I needed to take a break from video editing. No Judas Priest references inside.
#philosophy #logic #simplicity #grammar #language #sufficiency #ontology #metaphysics #blog #podcast #aphorism #heuristic #naturallaw #humility #razor
Let the man who has acquired Enough not ask for MORE.
A house and acreage, a pile of bronze and gold coins,
Have never been able to lower the sick man’s fever
Or drive out his worries. The proprietor must be well
If he plans to enjoy the good things he’s gathered together.
[Quod satis est cui contingit, nihil amplius optet.
Non domus et fundus, non aeris acervus et auri
Aegroto doniini deduxit corpore febres,
on animo curas; valeat possessor oportet,
Si conpertatis rebus bene cogitat uti.]
Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 2 “To Lollius,” l. 46ff (1.2.46-50) (14 BC) [tr. Palmer Bovie (1959)]
More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/82038/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #Horace #avarice #cure #enough #greed #illness #mentalillness #money #more #property #riches #satisfaction #sufficiency #wealth
You don't have to be perfect, but every step you take in the right direction helps:
X, Insta, TicToc -> :fediverse: https://joinfediverse.wiki/Fediverse_projects
Microsoft -> Install Linux on it
AI -> ask intelligent humans instead, e.g. #AskFedi
Google -> https://noai.duckduckgo.com
GoogleMail -> @Tutanota
iPhone -> jailbreak it, use it until its dead, get a Fairphone with @e_mydata
Amazon video, Disney+, Netflix, Spotify, etc. -> Torrents
Google/Microsoft/Apple calendar -> physical calendar
Zoom -> meet friends IRL, or use @signalapp
Whatsapp -> Signal, or better yet @mollyim
omnivorism -> vegetarianism, veganism, freeganism, flexitarianism, ... (just consume fewer animal products and save food)
car -> public transit, bike, car-sharing
flying -> discover the beauty of your closer surroundings by train
job -> general strike
consumerism -> sufficiency
despair -> collective effectiveness & empowerment
#BoycottUSA #UnplugTrump #fediverse #linux #fairphone #torrents #veganism #MobilityTransition #GeneralStrike #sufficiency #empowerment #DIDIt #UnplugMAGA #StopFascism
🌿 I like this blog post by @maxwilbert. It highlights the problem with speaking of environmental issues in terms of 'limiting ourselves'. Because that carries the implication that until these limits are reached, we can do whatever we want.
Instead of external limits, he argues (in agreement with author Giorgos Kallis), we should look for internal limits: ways of limiting our own behaviour to be more in line with the world around us – not just because of the consequences, but also because of the freedom and justice such limit-setting entails.
I like this.
However, I disagree with the wording here. I think we can go one step further and not speak in terms of 'limits' at all. I am not limited by the fact that I cannot take a private jet everywhere I go; I am positively happy about it. I am not limited by my non-consumption of animal products, it makes me feel great. What Wilbert and Kallis call 'self-limitation', I call flourishing.
As long as we keep thinking in terms of limitation/expansion, we stay stuck in the capitalist-imperialist mindset. This mindset sees expansion as the only way forward, with everything else being 'stagnation' or 'regression' and therefore Bad. Whereas what we should be looking for is ways to grow our quality of life without growing our destructive footprint.
In my humble opinion, of course.
🔗 https://maxwilbert.substack.com/p/the-problem-with-limits
#degrowth #MaxWilbert #LimitsToGrowth #environment #EnvironmentalPhilosophy #GiorgosKallis #sufficiency #abundance
The second report examines three mutually reinforcing pathways to address the triple crisis: #efficiency, #sufficiency, and #equity.
👉 https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/publikationen/triple-crisis-systemic-solutions
We found this #sufficiency #postgrowth book by @timjackson.org.uk@bsky.brid.gy in the village book telephone booth. (A former telephone booth with shelves where you share books for free.) Trust me this village is the least place where you'd expect this, but it is 2026. Time.
Sufficiency as a Post-Capitalist Moral Philosophy
Channel: Vlad Bunea
Article with sources: https://vladbunea.substack.com/p/sufficiency-as-an-anti-capitalist
Science approves your argument! :ancomheart:
"How much growth is required to achieve good lives for all? Insights from needs-based analysis"
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2452292924000493
Spoiler: "Provisioning decent living standards (DLS) for 8.5 billion people would require only 30% of current global resource and energy use, leaving a substantial surplus for additional consumption, public luxury, scientific advancement, and other social investments."
Away with complaints; for he is not poor, who has enough of things to use. If stomach, lungs, and feet are all in health, the wealth of kings can give you nothing more.
[Tolle querellas:
Pauper enim non est, cui rerum suppetit usus.
si ventri bene, si lateri est pedibusque tuis, nil
divitiae poterunt regales addere maius.]
Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 12 “To Iccius,” l. 4ff (1.12.4-6) (20 BC) [tr. Fairclough (Loeb) (1926)]
More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/14417/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #contentment #enough #goodhealth #health, #needs #sufficiency #wealth #perspective
Not smoking may cause long healthy lives for yourself and your loved ones.
Bikes, Trains and walking cause health, fresh air and intact nature.
Avoiding AI causes human intelligence and skills, energy transition and planetary health.
Vaccines and masks cause your loved ones not to develop horrible deseases that might otherwise make them choose assisted suicide.
Degrowth, sharing and sufficiency cause the good life for everybody.
Diversity and inclusion cause happiness and resilience.
Empathy and solidarity solve all problems.
Doing as good as you can in regards to the points above makes a huge difference. :flan_heart:
Thank you and please don't judge yourself.
#empathy #solidarity #diversity #inclusion #ClimateJustice #PlanetaryHealth #OneHealth #EnergyTransition #MobilityTransition #degrowth #sufficiency
There was a stag, once, who could always defeat a stallion
And drive him out of their pasture — until, tired of losing,
The horse begged help of man, and got a bridle in return.
He beat the stag, all right, and he laughed — but then the rider
Stayed on his back, and the bit stayed in his mouth.
Give up your freedom, more worried about poverty than something
Greater than any sum of gold, and become a slave and stay
A slave forever, unable to live on only enough.
[Cervus equum pugna melior communibus herbis
pellebat, donec minor in certamine longo
imploravit opes hominis frenumque recepit;
sed postquam victor violins discessit ab hoste,
non equitem dorso, non frenum depulit ore.
Sic qui pauperiem veritus potiore metallis
libertate caret, dominum vehet improbus atque
serviet aeternum, quia parvo nesciet uti.]
Horace (65-8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Epistles [Epistularum, Letters], Book 1, ep. 10 “To Aristius Fuscus,” l. 34ff (1.10.34-41) (20 BC) [tr. Raffel (1983)]
More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/horace/80424/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #horace #avarice #bit #bridle #control #economy #enough #fear #financial security #freedom #greed #impoverishment #insecurity #liberty #master #poverty #selfsufficiency #servility #sufficiency #worry
tl;dr: Green AI can only matter if it moves beyond hype—toward truth, transparency, and regeneration within planetary limits.
Over the past months, hardly a day has passed without headlines about artificial intelligence: new models, astonishing breakthroughs, and dire warnings. At conferences, in boardrooms, and in policy debates, AI has become a kind of secular promise—of productivity, […]
https://andrereichel.de/2025/10/07/green-ai-beyond-bullshit/
Green AI Beyond Bullsh*t
tl;dr: Green AI can only matter if it moves beyond hype—toward truth, transparency, and regeneration within planetary limits.
Over the past months, hardly a day has passed without headlines about artificial intelligence: new models, astonishi
https://andrereichel.de/2025/10/07/green-ai-beyond-bullshit/
#ArtificialIntelligence #Energy #Environment #Green #Regeneration #RegenerativeEconomy #Talks #Technology #Digitalization #Regeneration #Sufficiency #Technology
[VIDEO] Waarom energie-efficiëntie niet genoeg is
Griet Verbeeck (Hasselt University) legt uit wat het fundamentele verschil is tussen ontwerpen voor #sufficiency versus ontwerpen voor #efficiency.
Work-time reduction seems soon likely in South-Korea🎉
@freistern @klimagerecht_leben
#Zivilgesellschaft setzt sich ja meist für Dinge ein, die politisch zumindest umstritten sind oder nicht thematisiert werden. neben #Suffizienz fällt mir zB noch #Ungleichheit ein oder #Ernährungswende. Suffizienz als Ermöglichung nachhaltiger Lebensstile im speziellen muss mehr diskutiert werden! Teilen wäre ein erster Schritt ;-)
#sufficiency #Suffizienz #inequality
Wow, quite a cool crowd came out to discuss #sufficiency & ecological democracy in Lüchow yesterday, in Wendland, at the District Council's invitation. After my talk, impressive local actors described their initiatives on shared living, community-supported agriculture, goods and services sharing and bike repair. I learned a lot, got engaged comments. The District is working on a Futures Strategy centered on an economy for the common good, circularity - and sufficiency. 👍 Thanks for inviting me!
“When you stop chasing after what you don’t need, what you already have becomes more visible. And often, that includes things we’ve been told to devalue, rest, slowness, care, and reciprocity. These aren’t leftovers. They’re the foundation of any life worth living.”
I really like this piece by Pieter de Beer from The Sufficiency and Wellbeing Magazine (though unfortunately it’s on Substack 🫤)
…My over-riding sense is that when in sufficiently large numbers we want more than any of us should have, we *inevitably* end up with a fuck tonne *less* than we deserve, under oppressive psychopaths.
So the best thing any of us can do in this perilous moment is to promote a conversation about what is *enough* and what happens when we get that wrong
