• NatakuNox@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    We currently live in a post scarcity world. Yes right now. The only reason we have poverty in today’s world is that it financially benefits an extreme minority of humans on earth. We currently can provide for everyone and still live the same level of comfort we have now, but imaginary line on graph must go up.

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      3 months ago

      Funnily enough, even the fascists agree. The man who convinced me of that fact, and thus of socialism compared to social democracy, was Jordan “Literally a Nazi” Peterson.

      In some rant of his he threw out some factoid to claim that population growth can keep expanding forever because “each new worker produces seven times more resources than they will consume in their life”

      Regardless of the literal brain damage it takes to come to that conclusion from that factoid, the actual numbers aren’t far off. It’s a bit more complicated but the result is the same, a post scarcity society beset by parasites.

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      3 months ago

      This isn’t true, if everyone in the world raised their living standards to first world countries, we would’ve already consumed all of earths finite resources many times over.

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        3 months ago

        False. Not saying that we can change to a system that provides for everyone over night but there are no real resources scarcities. Just fascist that want you to think that way.