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Accelerationists believe in a post-scarcity society where the cost of production will be negligible. In that scenario, and I am not a believer, consumer demand would be independent of wages.


That makes wealth accumulation pointless so the whole article makes no sense either, right?

Tho I guess even post scarcity we'd have people who care about hoarding gold-pressed latinum.


In that scenario, wages and money in general would be obsolete.


> consumer demand would be independent of wages

That's the literal actual textbook definition of "communism".

Lmao that I actually lived to see the day when techbros seriously discuss this.


> Lmao that I actually lived to see the day when techbros seriously discuss this.

People have been making comparisons between post scarcity economics and "utopia communism" for decades at this point. This talking point probably predates your birth.


communism is a universally accepted ideal


That is not the "textbook definition" of communism. You have no idea what you're talking about.




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