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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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We live in a post information scarcity society and we still haven't moved on from capitalism. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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Edit: Changed title to be more accurate.

Also here is the summary from Wikipedia on what Post-scarcity means:

Post-scarcity is a theoretical economic situation in which most goods can be produced in great abundance with minimal human labor needed, so that they become available to all very cheaply or even freely. Post-scarcity does not mean that scarcity has been eliminated for all goods and services but that all people can easily have their basic survival needs met along with some significant proportion of their desires for goods and services. Writers on the topic often emphasize that some commodities will remain scarce in a post-scarcity society.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Capitalism won't overthrow itself.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

It's collapsing by itself but I don't think that's fast enough. (And a hard crash will mean a lot of trouble, we need a transition)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago

And for the accelerationists in back - no, a crash doesn't imply anything nice will come later. We could end up back at feudalism.

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

– Buckminster Fuller

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you see any clear paths forward for a transition?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Someone else on this thread mentioned parallel structures and that is probably what is going to be needed.

Side topic, how did you get your username to do that?

Edit: It was @[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I read his take and yeah I agree with need that, thats not going to stop the billionaires from killing us though 😔

Username: I edited the DB directly on my Lemmy instance with Zalgo text. I also set my join date to somewhere far off in the future 😋

[–] meekah 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ooh I like that idea.

Do you use your own instance for browsing? Does using another instance for browsing mean your own instance does less caching?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Yeah I use Sync for Lemmy connected to my own instance that myself and friends use. I have a VPS that I run it on, and it catches everything I'm subscribed to, it's the only instance I "browse" on. I have accounts on other instances which I'll fall back to if I CBF hosting Lemmy anymore.

[–] meekah 2 points 9 months ago

I see, thanks!