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My name isn't Hugo and cheers for the judgment. I'll refrain from making judgments about your name and the glaring ommison coal from your list.
I was pointing out that there is more than one way to skin a cat and the importance of keeping an open mind.
Our economy is 80% service based. While not easy, that gives plenty of scope for changing existing sub-sectors within the framework of our existing quasi-capitalist system, in a way not possible say if you're Saudi Arabia. Of course the useless physical shit we buy would have to change, but that's only one part of that sector - what if we had explosion of masseuse? And instead of buying new groupsets we all had 3-4 massages a week?
The example of a derivatives trader, was in a similar vein to Keynes's burying banknotes. It's a job that's part of a constant redistribution of wealth with no new wealth creation which doesn't necessarily require a high carbon footprint like say - retail or North Sea oil. The underlyings don't even matter anymore. rhb's goat story is another great example of potential possiblity of low impact pointless capitalism.
Fwiw I think there are plenty of fundamental issues with our current system and struggle to reconcile this with climate change. However, I think it's a bit basic to just slag it off and only propose or believe a quasi-communist is the solution, when there are probably a mirad of possibilities.
Also not to sound like a dick, but there is no coherence in what you wrote and it sounds like you're just vocalising the chips on your shoulder.
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... a chap who’s username is hugo is sticking up for finance...
The shift to services destroyed many environments local to those who worked in the industries you refer to. These were in turn only relocated to places where there is, still, basically no environment protection and the where the workers are even more exploited. The shift overseas, made possible by a history of colonial rule and slavery, was paid for in a large part by blowing through the north sea oil and gas reserves to raise cash for all those new people on the dole. That oil and gas was burnt cheaply and without any concern for the environment.
It’s not that this is a full picture but I do you think you are wrong hugo7