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> while causing inefficiency, More inefficiency than we already have? > accounting headaches for everybody. What headaches would they be? > goods shortages

> while causing inefficiency, More inefficiency than we already have? > accounting headaches for everybody. What headaches would they be? > goods shortages In the developed world we already have more stuff and kinds of stuff than most of us need. Reducing the supply of new mobile phone designs is not going to materially reduce anyone's quality of life. A lot of the world just needs the kind of stuff we already have, and we already know how to make that stuff. As William Gibson said "The future is here, it's just unevenly distributed"

sandoooo 7y ago
>More inefficiency than we already have? Yes, more than there already is. This is the standard thing that happens whenever there is massive redistribution of anything by government fiat. Stuff gets redistributed arbitrarily, people who need it don't get it, poeple who don't need it get too much of it, stuff is lost via administrative error or outright fraud or political finagling, people being careless with billions of dollars in other people's money because it's not in their KPI, etc. Note that most things are not literally on fire currently and there is no looting. Those things are not guaranteed. >In the developed world we already have more stuff and kinds of stuff than most of us need. Really, now. Do you think we'll be OK if we stop the mass production of fertilizers and concrete for a while? Just a few months until things settle down? How about meds? Those tie up a lot of man-hours and medically trained people to produce, and we could definitely use those people elsewhere (or they could go take long, UBI-piad holidays).