Comment by __MatrixMan__
10 days ago
This is just scarcity based economics failing us in the ways that it has been for decades now. The only thing that stands out about tech is that from 2010 to 2020 it seemed to be withstanding the rot.
10 days ago
This is just scarcity based economics failing us in the ways that it has been for decades now. The only thing that stands out about tech is that from 2010 to 2020 it seemed to be withstanding the rot.
Since the world has finite goods and everyone wants more, I'm not sure what kind of economy besides "scarcity-based" you expect to find.
That worked well back when what we wanted more of were things that we all agreed upon were desirable. More food, more housing, more cars and tools and clothes.
Nowadays most of our efforts are in pursuit of contradictory goals. Creating an AI god, going to Mars, ethnic cleansing projects... these aren't things we unanimously want more of, they're one of two alternatives that some of us want to achieve and the others want to prevent. The logic of scarcity is a poor mediator for such things.
We don't have to dispense with scarcity entirely in order to stop using it as a proxy for decision making about outcomes that have nothing to do with scarcity.