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As soon as we are post scarcity, we don't need capitalism any more If you compare agriculture 1000 years ago with agriculture today, we're already in post scar
by stcredzero 3y ago
As soon as we are post scarcity, we don't need capitalism any more
If you compare agriculture 1000 years ago with agriculture today, we're already in post scarcity. I suspect the game theoretic mechanisms will keep it going for awhile yet.
- skeeter2020 3y agoAs society levels-up, the definition of scarce will continually expand as we confound wants with needs. I'm not sure how in a world of infinite wants you can "out-technology" resource demands.
- orthecreedence 3y agoI don't know if we are post-scarcity. Our inputs to agriculture (lots and lots of fossil fuels) are not post-scarcity in any sense. Multiply by the scale of humanity and it's difficult to argue we're post-scarcity in agriculture. We might have more food than people to feed, but that doesn't mean if nothing changed we'd be able to sustain our level of production.
- stcredzero 3y agoOur inputs to agriculture (lots and lots of fossil fuels) are not post-scarcity in any sense. Yes, but our levels of productivity per-farmer would look like utter Sci-fi to a medieval peasant, if they had a notion of Sci-fi. Also, by these standards, 1st world societies are fantasy lands, where the even the poor are fat, and have magical machines to keep food fresh, deliver music and entertainment, wash clothes and dishes. (Not all, but still.) What we posit today as post-scarcity, will likely just move the goal posts for scarcity.