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> I feel that part of the youths obsession with socialism and blaming capitalism is that they have never experienced scarcity to any real degree and because of
by antisthenes 4y ago
> I feel that part of the youths obsession with socialism and blaming capitalism is that they have never experienced scarcity to any real degree and because of that do not understand that there are limited resources, and their issue is fundamentally with that concept that they want to blame on capitalism.
A very large portion of Gen Z and some Millennials as well legitimately believe we live in a post-scarcity society where work is optional. I'm not sure if this is a result of an extremely privileged upbringing or an education system failure, but they hold these beliefs pretty firmly.
Not sure they can actually empirically justify them to any degree but there it is.
- danaris 4y agoWe do not yet live in a society where we can get by with no one working. We do live in a society where we could absolutely house, feed, and clothe every person in the Western world without requiring them to pay for these things, and still be hugely net-positive on productivity. Fortunately, we now have ample evidence that if you provide for people's needs, unless there is some very pressing reason not to (eg, sick, disabled, caring for children full-time, massively burnt out by our current stressful work environment), people still want to work. So we should absolutely be doing the above. It would benefit the whole society, and only hurt those who will no longer be able to control others by holding the threat of death by starvation and exposure over them.