sometimes we discuss the post-scarcity economy in Star Trek because obviously there are still makers - Picard's family makes wine - and it's still so hard for me to believe they just give it away, but... why not?

[senanthic@mstdn.ca]

sometimes we discuss the post-scarcity economy in Star Trek because obviously there are still makers - Picard's family makes wine - and it's still so hard for me to believe they just give it away, but... why not? they would have all their material needs met, presumably including the agricultural needs, so why not just hand it out to anyone who wants it? imagine a farmer's market where everything is free, and people just make and give away their things because they want to.

my capitalist upbringing is dazed and confused.

[jd@ottawa.place]

@senanthic

Reminds me of the ‘70s during a previous oil crisis when a bunch of academics outlined other possible social systems to replace capitalism, and gave them such memorable names as:
The Scottish model - thrift is king: so re-use it, patch it, repair it
The Buddhist model - live simply with few material needs
The bachelor/spinster model - no sex, no kids, Mother Nature wins.
There were others. I’ve forgotten them.

[tresfluke@beige.party]

@senanthic it could totally be that way but we choose not to.

[senanthic@mstdn.ca]

@TresFluke much like me, the world needs to make better choices