• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    You mean people who sleep on mats on a dirt floor? Sure. Some of us want to lessen our back pain. You do you.

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      11 months ago

      Come on now, indigenous people exist in the 21st century and have modern amenities. They just also keep their indigenous economies.

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          11 months ago

          How does that matter in the context of fairly distributing goods in a modernized indigenous economy?

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            11 months ago

            Again- a limited labor pool means a limited number of the drug that can be developed. That means that only a limited amount can be distributed, which might not be enough to provide it for everyone who needs it.

            Why are you making me repeat myself?

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              11 months ago

              It’s obvious that we see labor differently. I don’t consider labor to be a commodity, and therefore I don’t think any of the concerns you raised about labor shortages are something worth worrying about.

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                11 months ago

                You can’t “I don’t see labor as a commodity” your way out of scarcity. That’s just hilariously absurd.

                Literally head in the sand sort of thinking.

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                  11 months ago

                  Actually, I can. Because I did. On a fundamental level, we disagree about what labor is. Labor is not a commodity. It’s treated like a commodity within capitalism, but it’s plain and simply not a commodity.

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                    11 months ago

                    Let’s imagine I had 100 rocks. For some reason I have to move them in order to feed everyone.

                    If I have one person I can move one rock a day.

                    With two people I can move two rocks.

                    And so on and so forth.

                    There is a labor demand - the need to move rocks.

                    And a labor supply - the number of people you have available to move rocks.

                    You can’t mind game your way out of that. Call it a commodity or not, you still need X people to do Y tasks and the discrepancy between the tasks and the people you have to do them is a measure and very real thing.

                    Because I did

                    Arrogance that knows no bounds.