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The article posits that the "privileged position" should be the common position: that poverty and hunger can and should be eliminated, and then from a position
by failrate 7y ago
The article posits that the "privileged position" should be the common position: that poverty and hunger can and should be eliminated, and then from a position where everyone is so privileged to not starve to death, good work that advances the human race may arise from those people who still work despite it not being required to survive.
- baroffoos 7y agoI wonder if it would be possible to cut everyone working hours and just hire more people. Its possibly less efficient to have 2 people working on what would be 1 persons task but it would hopefully make things more equal for everyone.
- mjfl 7y agoAh I see. All we need to do is eliminate scarcity. That shouldn't be too hard.
- jdbernard 7y agoWhen some of us individually have a greater net worth than groups of countries, yeah you'd think it wouldn't be too hard.
- rayiner 7y agoThe entire wealth of the world is only about $46,000 per person (this includes things like the value of homes, personal assets like cars, etc.)
- jdbernard 7y agoTo be a little less tongue-in-cheek it seems to me that it is less a problem of scarcity and more a problem of distribution. Food, for example, is this way. Land, by and large, is also.
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- badpun 7y agoCan you give an example?
- jdbernard 7y agoI am being purposefully hyperbolic in response to the parent's hyperbolic sarcasm, but for example Somalia, Burundi, and Madagascar together have an estimated GDP of about 40 billion dollars. Forbes billionaire list contains 19 people with a net worth north of $40 billion.
- mjfl 7y agoYou realize that GDP is a flux right - it has units of $/year, while wealth has units of $? It's textbook economic illiteracy to compare wealth to GDP.