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Re:Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after fou... by quickthrowman on Thursday April 22, 2021 @06:53PM (#26909102)
People with more resources have been exploiting people with less resources since probably the domestication of animals and plants created sedentary living and the idea of money/credit, perhaps before that even. Not just under capitalism, mind you, but every form of economic system.

I believe resource inequality will exist until free or near-free energy sources are developed, and even then, you still need ever expanding amounts of land/space. I believe it’s a consequence of scarcity and human nature.

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Re:Stranded sailor allowed to leave abandoned ship after fou... by rhengles on Friday April 23, 2021 @12:09AM (#26910894)
As Mark Twain said, "Buy land, they're not making it anymore". Nothing can make land "free". The planet's resources are vast but finite. If people continue reproducing with no limits they're reducing everyone's share of the pie. This is the actual reason why "the poor gets poorer", there's more of them but the resources stay the same.

This is the same logic that explain why building more roads does not reduce traffic congestion, because new demand is created to use the new roads and the traffic stays bad.

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