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We do not live in a post-scarcity world. Every day people get up, enforce the laws, execute the national defense, bury themselves up to their elbows in humans’
by throwaway9274 3y ago
We do not live in a post-scarcity world.
Every day people get up, enforce the laws, execute the national defense, bury themselves up to their elbows in humans’ abdomens to heal their broken bodies, and pick your turnips.
The world is not self-executing.
Market mechanisms coordinate that activity by transmitting information through the price signal. In their absence, the material abundance you mistake for post-scarcity would quickly collapse.
- happytiger 3y agoWhy use a throwaway to say that? It’s just truth in the current system, and the current system is the most abundant we’ve had for any significant duration.
- cma 3y ago> Every day people get up, [...] and pick your turnips. There are turnip harvesting machines in wide use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyAOQtnOJh4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyAOQtnOJh4