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Re:Why are American workers becoming harder to find? by lovich on Monday June 07, 2021 @04:40AM (#27420369)
Being too cheap for individuals or society to consider in their transactions and being completely free, are effectively the same to me.

You may feel otherwise, but if the distinction never makes a difference in the practical world then it does not enter my mind. Based on that metric, we already have post scarcity goods like already published books

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Re:Why are American workers becoming harder to find? by samatman on Monday June 07, 2021 @06:16AM (#27420869)
You have entirely misunderstood me.
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Re:Why are American workers becoming harder to find? by lovich on Monday June 07, 2021 @01:24PM (#27425282)
I’m fairly certain it’s the other way around. I agree that when you get to physical goods there’s no way it’s literally infinite. What I’m saying is that after a certain point it doesn’t matter.

If we had a sun sized amount of sugar available to humanity then it would be post scarcity even though it was actually getting used up by a measurable amount

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