• rockSlayer@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You mean like the still-existing and highly complex gift economies of natives all across the globe that have no homelessness?

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        1 year ago
        • the indigenous economies that I identify with and would be interested in participating in were destroyed by the British 1000 years before I was born.
        • I’d rather not be a colonizer in an indigenous economy.
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          destroyed by the British 1000 years before I was born

          You acted like they still existed. In that case my original point still applies.

          Those gift economies don’t work at scale and you would probably have a significantly worse quality of life if you were born to one.

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            1 year ago

            There are still indigenous economies in the world. The ones that I identify with were destroyed by the British though.

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      1 year ago

      You mean people who sleep on mats on a dirt floor? Sure. Some of us want to lessen our back pain. You do you.

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        Come on now, indigenous people exist in the 21st century and have modern amenities. They just also keep their indigenous economies.

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            1 year ago

            How does that matter in the context of fairly distributing goods in a modernized indigenous economy?

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              Again- a limited labor pool means a limited number of the drug that can be developed. That means that only a limited amount can be distributed, which might not be enough to provide it for everyone who needs it.

              Why are you making me repeat myself?

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                1 year ago

                It’s obvious that we see labor differently. I don’t consider labor to be a commodity, and therefore I don’t think any of the concerns you raised about labor shortages are something worth worrying about.

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                  You can’t “I don’t see labor as a commodity” your way out of scarcity. That’s just hilariously absurd.

                  Literally head in the sand sort of thinking.

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                    1 year ago

                    Actually, I can. Because I did. On a fundamental level, we disagree about what labor is. Labor is not a commodity. It’s treated like a commodity within capitalism, but it’s plain and simply not a commodity.