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minus-squareFundMECFS@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up72·2 days agoThis concept has a name. Artificial Scarcity.
minus-squareproletarians_must_suffer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down23·22 hours agoYeah, scarcity is created artificially by people who don’t want to give their stuff for free to complete strangers.
minus-squareLucidLyes@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·18 hours agoor maybe by not taxing people who have made much more than they can consume (and deserve) in 10 lifetimes?
minus-squareproletarians_must_suffer@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down10·18 hours agoAh, so it’s not that people should willingly give up their belongings. It’s that people with guns don’t forcefully seize their belongings from them.
This concept has a name. Artificial Scarcity.
Yeah, scarcity is created artificially by people who don’t want to give their stuff for free to complete strangers.
or maybe by not taxing people who have made much more than they can consume (and deserve) in 10 lifetimes?
Ah, so it’s not that people should willingly give up their belongings. It’s that people with guns don’t forcefully seize their belongings from them.