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by mystraline
293 days ago
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We have enough food production to feed 30 billion people, and throw away massive amounts. We have plenty of land and housing could be inexpensive or free for all. Sunlight, wind, and tidal is literally 1kW/1m^2 free energy. Pirates already can watch anything, listen to petabytes of music, access nearly every book including academic papers. We really could be living in post-scarcity world. But its the oligarchs and billionaires who want to keep the spoils for themselves. And in the USA alone 8 billionaires own as much resources as the bottom 60% does. Simply put, material scarcity is a fucked mindset. And we could grow past that - in fact I think we have to. |
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Land is pretty cheap, except when you want to live in a city, especially big. Which is what most people want.
Sunlight is free, solar panel manufacturing and maintenance is not.
Pirates watch things for free, but the people that pay fund the production.
Most expensive things are expensive because they require labor, which is expensive. And people tend to actually want expensive things, even if they don't strictly require them - either as a status symbol, or just to make their life easier (a dishwasher or a vacuum cleaner is not required to live, but most people can't imagine living without one).
Simply put, I think you either greatly oversimplify the problem and handwave the problem by just blaming "billionaires" for everything, or I don't understand your point properly.