Carl Muckenhoupt
Our entire economy is built to solve the problem of there not being enough to go around. It seems to me that this is not our current problem. There is enough. The problem is that it isn't going around.
Jun 28, 2017 at 9:16pmWeb
Show threadSydney Falk, An Oversensitive SJW TypeJun 28, 2017

@CarlMuckenhoupt

> economy is built to solve the problem of there not being enough to go around

presuming that's the case, it's been co-opted, unfortunately

(and I'm not really certain that's the case, these days -- the entire economic everything seems to be equal parts greed disguised in academic language and naivete disguised in academic language)

Show threadWoozle HypertwinJun 29, 2017

@CarlMuckenhoupt I'd say that's not the problem it's designed to solve -- or, at least, I'd put more emphasis on the "enough" and little to none on "to go around".

That is: it's designed to solve the problem of there just not being enough stuff to own.

(Snarky commentary on this pretty much writes itself, at this late date; no need for me to bother.)

cc: @sydneyfalk

Show threadSydney Falk, An Oversensitive SJW TypeJun 29, 2017

@woozle @CarlMuckenhoupt

It really does seem to be a "make first, distribution? wassat?" kinda thing, now that Wooz mentions it. O_o Hadn't thought of it that way, but I think it scans.