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I think we've gone from actual scarcity to the current era of artificial scarcity. Hopefully we get to post-scarcity once we solve that. We have plenty of ever
by over_bridge 5y ago
I think we've gone from actual scarcity to the current era of artificial scarcity. Hopefully we get to post-scarcity once we solve that.
We have plenty of everything, enough for everyone but we allocate and distribute it too inefficiently. Supermarkets destroy their unsold food, and Amazon their unsold products. Zoning laws mandate low density areas when we have the engineering to build enough homes for all vertically on the land we do have. Apple could provide iPhones at a cost that everyone can afford but they deliberately price them at a level that only a top % can handle. I think we all know about the scam of diamonds at this point as well.
It's all just fake and caused by the desire for short term profits.
- hattmall 5y agoSo your comment just made me think about this differently in a new context of limiting the artificial scarcity. There is a store near me, that has bins and everything is one price. It drops each day of the week and resets on Friday to $10. The lowest day is 0.50 cent. The store is selling all Amazon and Target discarded items. I go on the $1 and 0.50 day and can easily buy enough food, clothes, cosmetics and household goods to survive a week for like $20, if not less. So realistically it's a decent way of managing the excess and providing equality. They don't sell like produce obviously but the food is almost never expired only expiring soon sometimes.