(January 21, 2015 at 6:07 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Counterintuitively, when some things become "dirt cheap" they become so cheap that no one is willing to produce them, then they either get expensive from lack of supply or no one has them. Constant fluxuations between ludicrous expense and "so cheap I'd pay you to take this" is, generally, poor form (and makes for poor policy). Food, sadly, is one of those things.
(and remember, that shit is already automated to the n'th)
I take your point, but the technology of which we're speaking has the potential to do a strange thing: put the means of production in the hands of ordinary individuals. By the time we have nothing to offer that anyone is willing to give us the means to get basic necessities for, we may have widgets that can make them for us.
And as I've pointed out before, I'm a little optimistic. I have hope that there will be sufficient people who wouldn't let millions starve in the streets if it cost them next to nothing to prevent it...to prevent it.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
