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First step: confirming actual scarcity. Tell me, what basic human necessity or resource for individuals is in actual global scarcity right now? Food? Housing?
by keerthiko 7y ago
First step: confirming actual scarcity.
Tell me, what basic human necessity or resource for individuals is in actual global scarcity right now? Food? Housing? Schooling? Internet/knowledge access? Sanitation?
There is hoarding, rent-seeking, market-controlling of these things, but not actual scarcity, except maybe sanitation, and possibly healthcare if you count that as a resource rather than a process.
Pure capitalism as the vehicle of resource distribution has been proven as a failure to distribute existing resources to the lower echelons of society, even after multiple generations. Any solution that requires more than 2 generations to "solve" what it was designed to solve, I think we can safely call a failure.
It's time to try something else.
- pitaj 7y agoScarcity is not the same thing as shortage.
- manicdee 7y agoThere’s a scarcity of oxygen, real estate, food, and fresh water. We can’t just keep expanding the population, and we have already started a mass extinction event with the few billion we have now. What’s the world going to be like when we hit 11 billion in a couple of decades? In Australia we have overconsumed fresh water to the point that our largest cities treat desalination as “water supply” rather than “environmental disaster”. When the fresh water availanlemis not enough to sustain your population, it’s not the water supply that’s the problem.