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Old 05-24-2014, 04:37 PM   #36 (permalink)
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Everything Is Broken

Sleep tight.

Edit: Hmmph. Another multipage thread — it seems to have gone a little off-topic. Maybe the mods could move it to General Effieciency.

Here's where it goes off the rails for me:

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Originally Posted by Simonas
So, not people in communists countries are materialists at heart even though they cannot actually have what they want.
Is this saying that not-not people, or not little people could have what they want. That system will fail.

Anyways we live in an increasingly post-scarcity society and Quinn Norton is an awesome tech writer if your not familiar with her work. This is a good summary of our current dire straits.

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