Post #2987395

2026-04-14 23:48 UTC

Yes everything would be more expensive in this world where we pay for the true costs of what we need and want, but we would all be paid a lot more to make the world better, rather than earn less than our survival costs while making our world worse.

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@mlncn@social.coop 2026-04-15 00:00

We still need to massively, regularly, and systematically redistribute wealth if we want to have a functioning economy that uses markets. And i do want to use markets to have a political economy that is as fair, free, and fruitful as possible. But i wish the people who are understandably anti-market would take the lead in describing how we should run the half or more of modern economies that classic markets have no viable theory of producing the best results— everything related to ideas, knowledge, digital information, software, that can be free for all once created, where on the face of it democratic socialism can be far more fair, free, and fruitful than any contrived and constrained market could.

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@MellowTigger@mastodon.online 2026-04-14 23:52

@mlncn@social.coop I'm not sure that things would cost more. If we paid only for the calories (physics) needed to manufacture and move items, then costs would be stable until some technological change lowered them. We've mistakenly allowed greed in the form of scarcity (manufactured or natural) to increase "cost" in the same monetary measurement of actual physical costs. Separate them, and costs look very different.

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