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[–] LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 1 year ago

Capitalism creates scarcity to generate profit. We live and have been living in a time of unprecedented efficiency productivity and abundance. Artifical scarcity is used to keep workers from resisting wage slavery.