Desire & Scarcity (was Re: Desire under the Elms)

Charles Brown CharlesB at CNCL.ci.detroit.mi.us
Sat Jan 29 08:34:00 PST 2000



>>> Max Sawicky <sawicky at epinet.org> 01/28/00 06:20PM >>>Or put it this way. The socialization of the means of
production/elimination of classes seems to connote an absence of scarcity that does not obtain in *any* real economy, where rationing of one sort or another is inescapable. Nice to imagine but hard to believe.

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CB: Are you really saying that there is a in U.S. economy/society a scarcity , such that every last person could not be guaranteed food, shelter, clothing, transportation and many more basic use-values ? If you took three-quarters of the wealth of approximately the wealthiest 10% ( leaving them all still wealthy) and redistributed it to the poorest 10%, scarcity of all fundamental use-values would be eradicated, no ? What you are saying seems implausible.

CB



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