Gloominary wrote:Zero_Sum wrote:Artificial scarcity, look it up.
Right, we can produce food and housing many times cheaper and more efficiently than we could half a century ago, because we've replaced workers with cheaper and more efficient machines we run on coal, gas, hydroelectricity, oil, uranium and so on, fuels that give you dozens-hundreds of times more bang for your buck, but instead of these essential commodities becoming cheaper as they should have, capitalists have instead, increased, the prices, making themselves monstrously rich in the process, using all that money to have fun at our expense, and also reinvesting it in increasingly meaningless production, which's why we have so many superfluous products and waste, pollution, taking a tremendous toll on the environment, and causing us to deplete these non-renewable resources at a much faster rate than we otherwise would have.
This is why all essential goods and services must be socialized and/or syndicalized.
The inessential ones I don't care as much about, perhaps most of them will wither away and die, once we're not compelled by hunger and cold to both produce and consume them, and the remaining will naturally become fairer, because again, we won't be coerced by hunger and cold to produce and consume them.
Once again this is what happens when you let an oligarchy or aristocracy run wild without any stop measure to control them, better yet they control the financial purse strings of democracy where you can't vote your way out it. Hell, they bankroll and fund the voter counters or representatives. Once again democracy is a shit system and utterly fails.
They will keep sucking the blood and life force of any nation fattening or indulging themselves until a nation simply dies.
When they control the money supply, democracy, courts, laws, political representation, military, and police the only option left is violent revolution! There is no other recourse! There is no other options! There is no negotiating, peace, or diplomacy with these people!
Until people start understanding all of that nothing changes.