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AdorableBackground83 t1_izpqrt1 wrote

Because Capitalism has reached its cancerous stage. It’s a system that has completely outlived its usefulness.

This system requires cyclical consumption meaning people need to constantly buy and buy in order to generate GDP and economic growth.

The problem is that Earth doesn’t have unlimited resources and inefficiency is actually good for the economy but bad for our planet and well being.

Think about it. If the health industry discovered a cure or if 3D printing was so efficient that it could print almost everything you want at zero marginal cost then those industries would lose tremendous amounts of market share and jobs.

To put it simply. Efficiency, sustainability and abundance are the enemies of our system.

What we need on this planet is an intelligent management of our earths resources and distributing them in the most efficient way to every human need.

I could talk in detail but I suggest looking up the Zeitgeist Movement and Venus Project documentaries because they talk about the truth of our world in detail and actually propose real solutions than would benefit humanity.

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DaggerShowRabs t1_izpr8bj wrote

It's really interesting to think about the incentives for creating ASI in the capitalist system. There are huge market and resource incentives to create ASI. All the way up until the point that there isn't, because the technology can probably create the means to eliminate most resource scarcity.

It may be the very thing that unravels their centralization of resources, and thus, power.

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ChurchOfTheHolyGays t1_izq5wzr wrote

See Mercedes announced a car model for which you can pay a subscription to unlock the full performance of the motor? See NFTs? See AI snatching up all available housing for corporate investors?

That's the answer: artificial scarcity has always been a feature of this system and will only get worse.

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ChurchOfTheHolyGays t1_izq6ejb wrote

Yup, thank you. People really like the fallacy "useful in the past" = "useful in the future".

Sure slave owners thought slavery was responsible for all development they had.

Not to mention the argument "capitalism created innovations" could well be "innovations existed in spite of capitalism, not because of it" and there is absolutely no way we would know.

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