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Scarcity is impossible to eliminate. Even if you got rid of all of the costs of production, there would still be limits on human creativity and time. Even if yo
by shader 18y ago
Scarcity is impossible to eliminate. Even if you got rid of all of the costs of production, there would still be limits on human creativity and time. Even if you made infinite ai, so that creativity was unlimited, and made humans immortal, so that time was unlimited, people would still be forced to make choices between alternatives. And those choices can either be voluntary or coerced. Which way would you like to spend your infinite life? It's not communism if you aren't forced to share. It's capitalism.
Capitalism really is a bad term anyway. Marx invented it so he could use it for his straw-man arguments. But really it should be called free markets, or freedom, or opportunity, or the American Dream or something.
- rms 18y agoI mean practical scarcity of energy, which would drive us towards a reputational economy. See Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom.