No form of collectivism survives sufficient prosperity. Collectivism is almost entirely a consequence of scarcity.
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dont forest tribal peoples live in a form of collectivism despite being in abundance?
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Err...have you ever seen fort tribes conditions? Garden of Eden is a myth. Lots of scarcity (security, healthcare, energy)
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could you not simply keep adding things required whatever the level of development and call it scarcity?
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There's a level of atomicity that you can't break down further socially (eg no-marriage, vat-babies leisure society)
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I always took scarcity/abundance to relate to food and water and thats about it. Shelter I guess.
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Nah. Scarcity affects all things up the Maslow pyramid.
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heck, some tribal communities have medicine gardens, and generations untold of medicinal knowlecge.
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what does that have to do with scarcity/abundance? Having stuff not the same as having to economically compete for stuff.
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imo, the determinent is more about system-wide connectivity plus the paucity of systemic boundaries rather than abundence v scarcity

