standard of living is so nebulous like its designed or simply exists in a conversation exalting consumption and i dont know we can really use the same terms envisaging a sustainable future

but i have high hopes for recycling. too many assume extraction is the way we make the trains and busses and public housing we require---when the very cars we want to get rid of, the burbs we want to depopulate---are full of already extracted and party processed resources

i should think if we melted down all the electronics we have & have thrown away everyone could get a reasonable amount. and there's so much waste in this world. all the crypto infrastructure, all the electronic surveillance, all the servers of bullshit jobs and bullshit data, all the call centers and all the advertisers... is there really not enough for everyone to get a phone or computer?