| Re: Scarcity - and how capitalism solves it |
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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: PubliusPublius Date: Sep 5, 2008 22:52
> Thinking folks may also like to consider the in-built waste of the
> capitalist/economic model that actually in fact and reality has and is
> still causing scarcity in the world to a greater degree overall than
> any level of apparently global abundance or value to humanity or
> individuals.
Oops, missed a paragraph.
To which "scarcities" would you be referring there? Which commodities, or
manufactured products, for that matter, have become "scarcer" in the last,
say, 50 years? Paul Ehrlich made that bet with Julian Simon back in the
70s, and lost.
A good of any kind is not "wasted" if it satisfies a desire of some
individual, and is the property of that individual. There is no requirement
that others conserve their property in order to satisfy some desire of
yours. And needless to say, most of the world's goods are the property of
particular individuals; they are not the property of "society" or other
statistical abstractions.
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