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bricolage
31st July 2010, 13:23
How will communism end scarcity and bring us to a situation of abundance?
Cheers.
Exasperated_Youth
31st July 2010, 13:39
I read earlier on here that about 30% of workers are in financial jobs. So if you remove money (and thus banks, cashiers, etc.) then the workforce would be 50% larger.
That's part of it, I would assume.
Widerstand
31st July 2010, 13:47
We are living in abundance already. The reason an artificial scarcity is maintained, is to make presumably rare goods more valuable - for the sake of profit. Tons of food, etc., are actually thrown away every day.
Exasperated_Youth
31st July 2010, 13:54
We are living in abundance already. The reason an artificial scarcity is maintained, is to make presumably rare goods more valuable - for the sake of profit. Tons of food, etc., are actually thrown away every day.

Designer products are another example of this, I think? Except they make less instead of throwing things away. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Widerstand
31st July 2010, 14:08
Yes. A lot of Designer products are just the regular thing with a fancier name / outfit slapped on them. They could be sold at a much lower price and produced in larger quantities, but they aren't. I'm fairly sure a lot of clothes and electronics are thrown away though. Clothes especially, after being cycled out the current collection, usually go to outlets, and after that they are destroyed.
Dimentio
31st July 2010, 14:15
How will communism end scarcity and bring us to a situation of abundance?
Cheers.

Abundance could not be defined as an unlimited amount of resources, and must be understood as a situation where a human being have unlimited access to what she is able to consume. To some extent, scarcity is institutionalised through private property which basically is meaning that a few individuals could prevent others from using the means of production through force.
ContrarianLemming
31st July 2010, 16:45
The two main points are:
1. scarity is artificially kept
2. we will have much greater worker productivity in communism, more autonomous workers have always been shown to work much better, we'll also have a much larger workforce.

I suppose it's both.