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I think this is an old complaint about capitalism and a government that works to support capitalists, which dates from the 19th century. Most of the resources o
by incompatible 6y ago
I think this is an old complaint about capitalism and a government that works to support capitalists, which dates from the 19th century. Most of the resources of society end up controlled by a minority of capitalists and the government, and capitalists generally find better profits from providing goods to the wealthy instead of the poor. Hence, we have construction of luxury apartments and hotels, while people in the same city are homeless. It's described in the works of Kropotkin, etc., and nothing has really changed. Whether his solution, anarcho-communism, is actually practical remains largely untested, but he makes a fair point that society could easily satisfy the basic needs of the entire population, if desired, even with late 19th century technology, and even more easily today.