Varus wrote:
Absolutes force people to make tough decisions. The shades of grey are for people who don't want to offend anyone. This is what they're teaching in colleges and it's wrong. While sometimes there are shades of grey most of the time there is a definite right and wrong.
See above. Or below.
Timelordwho wrote:
The problem here is it takes a simplistic partially correct solution, and tries to make it apply to all situations by bashing into a wall with a tire iron.
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Ash is discussing a post-scarcity society, and economic modeling for that situation gets quite a bit cleaner as commodity differentials become insignificant. Things get reduced to valuations in time, energy, mass and information. This system, contrary to popular belief, does not necessitate the collapse of capitalism as a construct, but like all economic structures it undergo a significant amount of restructuring to fit the current social models.
I could go into more detail, but it would probably be best to move that discussion into a different thread, unless that would be a more exciting direction than playing retarded theory whack-a-mole. Because that's pretty fun.