Edit: Changed title to be more accurate.

Also here is the summary from Wikipedia on what Post-scarcity means:

Post-scarcity is a theoretical economic situation in which most goods can be produced in great abundance with minimal human labor needed, so that they become available to all very cheaply or even freely. Post-scarcity does not mean that scarcity has been eliminated for all goods and services but that all people can easily have their basic survival needs met along with some significant proportion of their desires for goods and services. Writers on the topic often emphasize that some commodities will remain scarce in a post-scarcity society.

  • Cowbee [he/they]
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    911 months ago

    Fascism is similarly unsustainable, if we fail and can’t achieve Socialism from Capitalism then fascism will take its place, and will also collapse. Same with climate, if we fail to properly handle it we will almost certainly go extinct, but the door remains open for life in millenia.

    • @PopOfAfrica
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      611 months ago

      Even Socialism seems transitory to me. Much better than Capitalism, but once labor can be more broadly automated, we need to think of something other than money quickly.

      • Cowbee [he/they]
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        411 months ago

        Communism is just that, same with Anarchism (though Anarcho-Communism skips Socialism). You’re correct, but that is for after Socialism.

      • @[email protected]
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        311 months ago

        As capitalism itself has demonstrated, people and money can operate just fine when others are doing the work.

    • @Nudding
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      411 months ago

      Hopefully earth finds harmony after humans.

        • @Nudding
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          211 months ago

          Harmony without 150 species being driven to extinction every day by one organisms population.

            • @Nudding
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              011 months ago

              Are you stupid? Without humans destroying the environment.

              • @[email protected]
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                111 months ago

                A person never knows when they’re stupid.

                I think “stability” is the word you’re looking for here. Harmony is a beautiful word, and should only be used to refer to the thing itself.

                • @Nudding
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                  011 months ago

                  Harmony: the quality of forming a pleasing and consistent whole.

                  Works fine where it is. Pedantry is an ugly look.

    • @[email protected]
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      311 months ago

      Everything is unsustainable. So far, nothing has been observed to last forever.

      Fascism tends to collapse a lot faster than capitalism though, because of its inherent drive to rework the world into something new. Fascism cannot abide non-fascism existing, and contains the implicit imperative to invade and impose fascism.

      • @[email protected]
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        311 months ago

        Just want to add this is not unique to fascism. It is an emergent property of all systems that seek to reshape the world.