Scarcity

Justin Schwartz jkschw at hotmail.com
Sun Apr 8 09:03:18 PDT 2001


Yoshie
>>Furuhashi
>><furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> writes
>>>>>Could you tell us why you think scarcity is inescapable?
>>
>>Justin, wisely:
>>
>>>>We will never live on the Great Rock Candy Mountain, where roast
>> >>chickens grow on trees and fish jump into our frying pans.
>
>But--from the perspective of any previous millennium--we do live on
>Big Rock Candy Mountain...
>
>
>Brad DeLong

As the old joke goes, Who "we," white man? However, it is true that capitalism has made possible a great increase in standards of living for many millions. No one who has been bitten by the "Manifesto" Marx will deny that. That still does not mean we have overcome scarcity. Or ever will. --jks

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