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 Originally Posted by Penneywize
Originally Posted by Penneywize
. What are the alternatives? State-controlled economies? The old-school barter system? All signs point to "fuck that shit".
So I read up a little bit on the whole 'resource-based-economy' notion and I am pretty much of the mind that... Until we can eliminate scarcity, we're always going to have to make the fundamental choice of alternative uses; and capitalism is going to be the best way for this to happen naturally for the foreseeable future.
Again, I feel like a dick having to sound like a fucking textbook that insists upon itself, but there it is..
But the problem is a form of corruption is the creation of scarcity. The easiest example is the diamond market. And the suppression of new tech is used to prolong scarcity as well. For example big oil buying up patents on battery tech with no desire to put these advances into the market.
Pretty much, the people in power have no interest in feeding the world by eliminating scarcity. Without scarcity that which they have has no value.
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