• Maeve@kbin.earth
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    4 days ago

    The world has had enough resources for post-scarcity for decades, if not centuries. Before, the problem was logistics, now it’s will.

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      2 days ago

      I think the estimate I’ve seen that tries to compute this out has people showering once every 3 weeks and using the internet for ~1 hour a week. Is this the post-scarcity lifestyle you had in mind, am I confused, or have we tipped past the point of being able to do much better?

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        1 day ago

        Ah, we can’t produce water, can we? Better we check consumption, especially corporate.

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          1 day ago

          I’m not sure what you mean.

          But yes, desalination and cleaning are very expensive still afaik. We pipe water quite far between states, which seems crazy to me.

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      4 days ago

      Oh it has always been will. Let‘s not pretend like capitalism has the better logistics and therefore a better world wouldn‘t have been possible sooner. That’s only romanticizing capitalism.

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        3 days ago

        I’m talking about methods of transport and storage. Food isn’t likely to rot before it gets where it’s going, like it was a couple hundred years ago.

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          3 days ago

          You can eat Southafrican oranges in Europe. Food could go wherever it’s needed but rich people doesn’t want it.