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Re:Post Scarcity Economics by sliverstorm on Friday October 04, 2013 @02:31AM (#6494004)
Of course, the abundance of air might actually be hurting us. It is so cheap that companies can abuse it freely, and it actually does wind up impacting the rest of us.

Fresh clean water is much the same way. Water is so cheap, its market price doesn't reflect its value and you get companies pretty much wasting ridiculous amounts of it, which in turn causes problems.

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Re:Post Scarcity Economics by rjsw on Friday October 04, 2013 @08:03AM (#6494829)
There are quite a few places where water won't be cheap for much longer. Underground aquifers are being depleted very fast.
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Re:Post Scarcity Economics by jayfuerstenberg on Friday October 04, 2013 @04:23AM (#6494316)
This is true to an extent.

I once lived in a condo suite with free heat and hot water. My showers were longer than they would've been had I been paying for each drop.

But I still believe the merits of abundance outweigh the demerits.

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