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It's still not palatable, because when you get your food and charge your phone you still need to decide what to do with your free time and how to convince other
by chr1 7y ago
It's still not palatable, because when you get your food and charge your phone you still need to decide what to do with your free time and how to convince others to help you. Capitalism is essentially a system of voting on what is important. When food becomes abundant enough to not cost much, everyone will get it independently of the system, same as everyone gets free email now. But capitalism will still be needed to decide what else is important to do. Of course capitalism is not perfect and lots of people still choose to waste their vote on pointless activities like watching sports or reality shows instead of science and space travel, but because unlike socialism the vote is transferable they end up transferring at least part of their vote to useful things.