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On Tue, 20 Mar 2001 03:21:21
Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
> 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
>What about Nanotechnology, Yoshie? Nanotechnology will eradicate scarcity.
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