• @Velypso@sh.itjust.works
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      81 day ago

      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.

      • @arrow74@lemmy.zip
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        21 hours ago

        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

        • Ziglin (it/they)
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          310 hours ago

          Apart from power, washing bottoms, and laptops that is pretty close to what many people I know have. That certainly doesn’t seem outlandish.

          Now who’s going to help with the wealth redistribution and logistics? I volunteer for helping with logistics. Anyone with pew pew experience want to try the wealth redistribution?

      • @LH0ezVT@sh.itjust.works
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        341 day ago

        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?

        • Signtist
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          111 day ago

          That’s the heart of the issue, though, isn’t it? Most people do care about the state of their washing machines even as countless children have nothing to eat. People chastise their kids for not eating their vegetables by saying “kids are starving in Africa,” without doing anything to help any kids in Africa. People want more for themselves even while acknowledging that others have so much less. Studies like this assume that human selfishness is negligible, while it’s actually one of the largest variables that needs to be factored in. Most people don’t actually care about human suffering unless it’s happening to someone they personally know - they care much more about their washing machine.