It all comes down to “well, sure we might have plenty, but if not for capitalism how could we decide how to divide it?”
But any solution has to promote self-interest as a virtue and can’t take things away from people who currently own them, and also must conform to a bunch of myths we have about “how the world works”
exocrinous@startrek.website 2 months ago
“Yes, we already have more empty houses than homeless people, but I’m sure building more houses is the solution to homelessness. We can’t disrupt the economy, after all.”
TwilightVulpine@kbin.social 2 months ago
Trying to never disrupt the Economy when the Economy is based on materially impossibly extracting ever growing profits out of a finite world is itself a futile self-destructive endeavor.