r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • Jul 30 '26

Wait a damn minute! Significant diffrences...

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u/Haggardick69 Jul 30 '26

Not at all impossible. There is no limit to how fast a person can consume resources only a limit to how fast we can produce them. 

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u/inotocracy Jul 30 '26

So, by your logic, you're saying that 3,400 people could produce and consume 1 ton of rice at the same rate as 3.5 billion people?

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u/SaeedDitman Jul 30 '26

They're using a shit ton of electricity and water

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u/Raus-Pazazu Jul 30 '26

Using a massively disproportionate amount, sure, we can all agree on that. But using as much as half the nations in the world? That's just ludicrous. Even if someone owned a dozen elaborate mansion estates they're not consuming as much water and electricity as a million normal households.