people really out here thinking houses maintain themselveshttps://twitter.com/Alysonesque/status/1005989848577073152 …
right--but the fact that people really want to solve a problem isn't always relevant to the problem actually being soluble
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...and where intractable problems are concerned, it can get really frustrating to keep hearing "maybe you just don't want the solution enough"
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To be clear I am NOT trying to say this. That would be terrible.
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That’s more relevant I think: the supposition that it’s impossible to construct a society where people who don’t want to starve don’t, or be homeless aren’t is a giant leap, imo. It would also be a leap to say assuredly that we’re currently capable of totally solving these issues
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Further it’s not necessary to dismiss the goal because it may not be 100% attainable: there IS manufactured scarcity right now. Likely quite a bit of it.
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Yes--but it's much easier to call out the scarcity manufactured by hoarders and monopolists than that manufactured by incompetence, short sightedness, negligence, etc
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Sure! But those are all problems we should delight in tackling. They are things imminently measurable and configurable. I simply am of the belief that because people want to uphold this status quo, we’re not doing the work as a society.
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An alcoholic who keeps spending any possible income on more beer both wants and doesn't want to uphold the status quo--and in either case the brewer is hardly to blame
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I just don’t believe that’s the issue here. The monopolists and hoarders are the ones in charge of production and distribution and they don’t want change. Further, there are many subject to Engles’ false consciousness who fight to maintain a bizarre sort of “fairness” here.
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That might not be clear. What I mean is there are people who believe that 1) they have what they do because of their own “hard work” and 2) that “hard work” is uniformly rewarded with the success it deserves. They end up arguing in support of keeping hoarders/monopolists in power
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