Comment on A perfect visualisation of a wasteful system

• GBU_28@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s what everything everywhere is. Many folks in communist countries lack things others have too.

  Only in a hypothetical utopia could all persons have all things equally.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Especially because unless you’ve solved the limited resources problem, then even in a utopia you’re still going to have to have something like money, and therefore you will still have things that some people have that other people don’t have.

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    • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      What essential resources are so limited that we can’t provide them to everyone based on need?

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      • FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Define ‘limited.’ Because limits include trained manpower, right? There’s only a certain amount of that. Our ability to provide certain drugs for everyone who might need them are limited by the number of people trained to make them. This is true of virtually any industry. It is as limited as the number of people who can make it usable. And that is usually not an ‘anyone can do this’ issue.

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  • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Which things? Because all historical sources show that the bottom 10% had all the bare necessities for life. They didn’t have luxury apartments, but they had a roof. They weren’t eating steak every night, but they had more caloric input and healthier diets than the US.

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    • QuaternionsRock@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      historical sources

      Hit me

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      • rockSlayer@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        How do you feel about a CIA report on behalf of the department of agriculture? www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/DOC_0000498133.pdf

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    • Fal@yiffit.net ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The problem isn’t lack of shelter. There’s enough shelter available for the homeless. They just choose not to use it because it comes with rules like no drugs and (often) no pets.

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      • BeneGesseritWitch@sh.itjust.works ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, there is not enough shelter available for the homeless. Shelters have occupancy limits and especially in major cities there is literally not enough space. So yes, there is a lack of shelter.

        https://endhomelessness.org/resource/many-western-and-southern-states-lack-sufficient-shelter-capacity-for-individual-homeless-adults

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