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> "success" isn't about being an individual that becomes rich Independent of the rest of your comment: the quoted concept is trivially false as long as resourc
by mmirate 9y ago
> "success" isn't about being an individual that becomes rich
Independent of the rest of your comment: the quoted concept is trivially false as long as resources are scarce. (i.e. the foreseeable future; barring severe, draconian and arguably-unethical controls on population size)
("Powerful" being an additional non-redundant qualifier, is merely a consequence of the monopoly called "government".)
- SandersAK 9y agoResources aren't actually that scarce and haven't been for quite a while. The Breadbasket of America can feed everyone. Population growth isn't really a scarcity problem, it's an organizational and structural one. Unless you think we're at max efficiency!
- mmirate 9y agoFood is one resource. Energy and topsoil are others, needed for food production. Thanks to (U.S.) government subsidies for farming, farmers can purchase those resources unusually easily; some argue that this will lead to faster depletion of those resources since farmers aren't under sufficient economic incentive to conserve them.