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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Capitalism manufactures scarcity. Even when we have plenty, capitalism must create limits on the sharing of free resources

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

This is what I keep telling people, we already live in a post-scarcity world... We just can't reap the benefits because Capitalism forces us to pretend we don't.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

"Yes, we already have more empty houses than homeless people, but I'm sure building more houses is the solution to homelessness. We can't disrupt the economy, after all."

We need to instill voters with the courage to vote for actual left wing parties so we can get some politicians in Parliament who'll just do what needs to be done, and seize the empty houses from the investors and landlords.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Trying to never disrupt the Economy when the Economy is based on materially impossibly extracting ever growing profits out of a finite world is itself a futile self-destructive endeavor.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

It all comes down to "well, sure we might have plenty, but if not for capitalism how could we decide how to divide it?"

But any solution has to promote self-interest as a virtue and can't take things away from people who currently own them, and also must conform to a bunch of myths we have about "how the world works"