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1. mynamebaka 👌 (xj9@sunshinegardens.org)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2017 23:07:15 UTC mynamebaka 👌

   • Leeloo

   @ThisIsLeeloo the way you phrase "resources are scarce" is an over-generalization. nobody is saying "all resources are scarce", some resources are more difficult to extract, some *products* are more difficult to manufacture than others. "scarcity" means, there are less units of a commodity than it would take to satisfy the demand for it. this is what drives prices, depending on the ratio of supply:demand things get more/less expensive.

   • mynamebaka 👌 (xj9@sunshinegardens.org)'s status on Saturday, 23-Dec-2017 23:09:46 UTC mynamebaka 👌

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     • Leeloo

     @ThisIsLeeloo this is actually a problem in non-captialist systems too. there will always be competition over finite resources, even if you eliminate markets. if the demand for some resource is higher than what you have, somebody will have to go without. markets solve this problem with prices. its actually a pretty resilient distributed system.