From Ian to Justin:
> As far as I can tell, your view is that we cannot afford justice until we
> have overcome scarcity, that is, until we don't need justice any more. As
> long as we need it because we cannot all have everything we want, we cannot
> have it. You realize, of course, that this puts off treating people decently
> not one or two generations, but, as I suspected, forever, because unlike our
> communist friends here, I agree with you that we will never overcome
> scarcity.
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>The bigger problem is uncertainty, not scarcity. And the scarcest "thing" of
>which we are in great need is better knowledge of how nature
>constructs systems.
Better knowledge will be certainly welcome. The problem is, however, that capitalism doesn't even allow available knowledge to be made use of freely to meet human needs.
Yoshie