Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 months agoWe live in a post scarcity information society and we still haven't moved on from capitalism.message-squaremessage-square185fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
arrow-up10arrow-down1message-squareWe live in a post scarcity information society and we still haven't moved on from capitalism.Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 8 months agomessage-square185fedilink
minus-squareDeceptichum@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoBecause you can’t eat ideas. We can have all the free information in the world, the people who control the bare necessities still control the bare necessities and they can use that to keep people down and divided.
minus-squareTh4tGuyII@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·8 months agoExactly. Information is a luxury - you could go your entire life without learning even a shred of information, but you’d still need to eat.
Because you can’t eat ideas.
We can have all the free information in the world, the people who control the bare necessities still control the bare necessities and they can use that to keep people down and divided.
Exactly. Information is a luxury - you could go your entire life without learning even a shred of information, but you’d still need to eat.