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What? There is technically more than enough to go around. Why does someone always have to be in poverty in your world view?
by trianglem 6y ago
What? There is technically more than enough to go around. Why does someone always have to be in poverty in your world view?
- Supermancho 6y ago> Why does someone always have to be in poverty in your world view? The short answer is, "because there has always been". The longer answer is about distribution, effort, and capability for populations. There's also the issue of individuals who choose not to participate or concern themselves with their own well-being. It's almost assured that there is uneven distribution of goods in every economic model leading to a complete breakdown of availability for some. In an egalitarian utopian socialist/communist system, there are inadvertent gatekeepers who create an uneven distribution from corruption and opportunity cost. ie Distribution work that is hard is avoided when there's plentiful and ongoing distribution work^. Any economic system that is not explicitly egalitarian has gatekeepers by design and you end up with uneven distribution. I don't see any way around these issues, even with automation...which has to be maintained by humans and you end up with the same issues. ^I think the USPO is an exceptional marvel as an egalitarian service which actually works, albeit by making cost/benefit choices about what areas to cover. To whit, this is a compromise that still leaves some without mail service, akin to mail-poverty.