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Solving racism is basically child's play compared to solving poverty. There have been some half-hearted attempts in America that never went anywhere. Lumpenprol

Solving racism is basically child's play compared to solving poverty. There have been some half-hearted attempts in America that never went anywhere. Lumpenproletariat will always exist until we become a post scarcity civilization.

drekk 5y ago
We are a post-scarcity civilization. We landfill most of our food, and produce enough calories to sustain many multiples of our population. For every homeless person in the US, we have over a dozen empty homes. Poverty is a policy choice. The cruelty is the point. 20% of children on the wealthiest country in the history of the planet do not know where or when they'll get their next meal and that is entirely socially constructed. Americans weren't joking when they said better dead than red. I wish they felt that statement in their bones the way they do in their heads.
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- dragonwriter 5y ago
  > We are a post-scarcity civilization. No, we aren't. Resource remain finite, and less than human desires, which is the definition of scarcity. > Poverty is a policy choice. Yes, but it's a choice because the desperation in the working class produces conditions that enable the elite class to get more of the goods and services they want; the particular distribution of the pain of scarcity may be artificial, but it is designed to deal with real scarcity—people have desires for goods and services, and the tradeoff for maximizing them is other people must be deprived. If we were post-scarcity, the desires of one group would not need sacrifice by another to satisfy. The existence of such a tradeoff defines scarcity.
- slibhb 5y ago
  We'll be a post-scarcity civilization when the things people need and want (energy, food, water, housing, medicine, entertainment, etc) don't require human labor to produce. That's not on the horizon outside of science fiction scenarios.

drekk 5y ago

We are a post-scarcity civilization. We landfill most of our food, and produce enough calories to sustain many multiples of our population. For every homeless person in the US, we have over a dozen empty homes. Poverty is a policy choice. The cruelty is the point. 20% of children on the wealthiest country in the history of the planet do not know where or when they'll get their next meal and that is entirely socially constructed. Americans weren't joking when they said better dead than red. I wish they felt that statement in their bones the way they do in their heads.

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dragonwriter 5y ago
> We are a post-scarcity civilization. No, we aren't. Resource remain finite, and less than human desires, which is the definition of scarcity. > Poverty is a policy choice. Yes, but it's a choice because the desperation in the working class produces conditions that enable the elite class to get more of the goods and services they want; the particular distribution of the pain of scarcity may be artificial, but it is designed to deal with real scarcity—people have desires for goods and services, and the tradeoff for maximizing them is other people must be deprived. If we were post-scarcity, the desires of one group would not need sacrifice by another to satisfy. The existence of such a tradeoff defines scarcity.
slibhb 5y ago
We'll be a post-scarcity civilization when the things people need and want (energy, food, water, housing, medicine, entertainment, etc) don't require human labor to produce. That's not on the horizon outside of science fiction scenarios.