cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36828107

ID: WookieeMark @EvilGenXer posted:

"OK so look, Capitalism is right wing.

Period.

If you are pro-capitalism, you are Right Wing.

There is no pro-capitalist Left. That’s a polite fiction in the US that no one can afford any longer as the ecosystem is actually collapsing around us."

  • rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    5·
    5 hours ago

    How would you go about fairly distributing limited luxuries, particularly when the value to a given person varies?

    I don’t think it should matter, at least not until we’ve guaranteed everyone their human rights. Nutritious food, safe shelter, clean water, medical care.

    I don’t think we can afford to worry about luxuries until we solve the problem of affording people.

    • cynar@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      5 hours ago

      Right now, we have more than enough to support basic necessities for everyone. It’s mostly a distribution issue now. It’s also being fucked up by run away capitalism creating artificial scarcity.

      You will have a hard time getting anyone to join a system that others nothing more than gruel, a grey jumpsuit and a dorm bunk.I would strongly suspect such a system of funneling thr excess to a few elites.

      The question is, how to judge values, without a capital based system at all. What is a lead brick worth in corn, or bananas?

      • rocket_dragon@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        3·
        4 hours ago

        Of all things why would a lead brick or bananas or corn need value?

        Give corn and bananas to people for free, give the lead brick to whatever science lab or nuclear power plant needs it for free.

        If you want to talk about luxury value in a post-scarcity economy, choose something like coffee.