• bizarroland@lemmy.world
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    14 hours ago

    Yeah, capitalism has conspired to make us believe, as a group, that resources are somehow incredibly limited while a small cabal of elites gobble up insane quantities of resources for themselves while depriving the majority of those same resources.

    Pure altruistic socialism would evenly redivide those resources, giving to those who need what they need.

    It is anathema to capitalism, but it is the only society that would actually work in a post-scarcity world, which we might actually be approaching, assuming that the capitalists don’t destroy it first.

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      13 hours ago

      The world has had enough resources for post-scarcity for decades, if not centuries. Before, the problem was logistics, now it’s will.

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        6 hours ago

        Oh it has always been will. Let‘s not pretend like capitalism has the better logistics and therefore a better world wouldn‘t have been possible sooner. That’s only romanticizing capitalism.

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          3 hours ago

          I’m talking about methods of transport and storage. Food isn’t likely to rot before it gets where it’s going, like it was a couple hundred years ago.

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      13 hours ago

      I think very few of the ruling elite would support a post scarcity world. Elon Musk keeps talking about it the most and he is one of the guys I trust the least to intentionally bring it about.