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I think my scarcity myth theory addresses this issue: https://kemendo.com/Myth-of-Scarcity.html https://kemendo.com/Myth-of-Scarcity.html Previous discussion:
by AndrewKemendo 2y ago
I think my scarcity myth theory addresses this issue:
https://kemendo.com/Myth-of-Scarcity.html https://kemendo.com/Myth-of-Scarcity.html
Previous discussion:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39569747 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39569747
I should have a significantly revised version by July for publication (new anthropologist co author)
- imtringued 2y agoI just want to tell that absolute scarcity is true in a thermodynamic sense, but that isn't necessarily relevant to human experience since we are just a tiny fraction of the universe. So what matters instead is the concept of relative abundance and scarcity. If there are very few humans and lots of resources to the point where they can't be consumed at all, you get relative abundance from the viewpoint of humans. I say this because I have seen a lot of people that argue absolute abundance cannot exist and they equate abundance with absolute abundance.
- AndrewKemendo 2y agoYou’re just ignoring my argument and pointing to a “Malthusian trap” when my paper specifically addresses this as the core fallacy