Edit: Changed title to be more accurate.

Also here is the summary from Wikipedia on what Post-scarcity means:

Post-scarcity is a theoretical economic situation in which most goods can be produced in great abundance with minimal human labor needed, so that they become available to all very cheaply or even freely. Post-scarcity does not mean that scarcity has been eliminated for all goods and services but that all people can easily have their basic survival needs met along with some significant proportion of their desires for goods and services. Writers on the topic often emphasize that some commodities will remain scarce in a post-scarcity society.

  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
    21·
    9 months ago

    Education is important, but not all knowledge is equally important.

    I liken it to a carpenter who uses Imperial units instead of metric. You can argue that metric is more exact, but if the carpenter can do the work why ‘correct’ them?

    It’s not the job of the people to be better educated, it’s the job of the leaders to find a way to speak to them that they understand.

    • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
      1·
      9 months ago

      I disagree. It is the job of leaders to push for education, so that the people can be trusted to make correct decisions on their own. We currently have an issue with rising fascism at the hands of an under-educated working class, which is resulting in a violent backlash against academia and science, because education is being strategically cut by fascists.

            • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
              3·
              9 months ago

              Education, and building up parallel structures like networks of Mutual Aid, and mass unionization. Increasing taxation helps, but without parallel structures and an increasingly educated populace taxes are just money spent to continue fueling the Military Industrial Complex. Taxing with no real direction doesn’t actually help, you need both cause and action.

              • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
                12·
                9 months ago

                A lot of generalities. How about something specific? Something people can do right now? You didn’t even mention getting people registered to vote.

                • Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
                  2·
                  9 months ago

                  I already gave you specifics, like unionization. Voting is important, yes, but are you genuinely asking me for an entire actionable platform for you to implement in your daily life?

                  1. Read. Read as much as you can about as much as you can, but chief among those read about how to organize, protest, and cooperate outside the bounds of Capitalist structures.
                  2. Register to vote. Voting is important as loss prevention. It may be fairly useless at a federal level for getting actual change, but it is great for loss prevention at the federal level, and meaningful change can absolutely happen at the local level.
                  3. Organize. Unionize your workplace, set up a community garden, volunteer for your local Food Not Bombs, participate in developing FOSS, and more.
                  4. Reject proprietary software and try to source your goods from co-operatives and unionized workplaces, where possible.
                  5. Teach others. Try to use all you have learned to convince others to follow suit.

                  You happy now?

                  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee
                    12·
                    9 months ago

                    Vague calls to ‘organize’ and ‘read’ aren’t specifics.

                    You talk about ‘organizing’ and don’t include anything like a link or a phone number. No training for people to create a Union.