Back two hundred years ago, bread was a desired commodity.

Now, the scarce resource is the materials that go into making computers.

Rare earth elements or REE

Wait

I fucked that up

Rare earth minerals

REM

No

Wtf was it

"but boots 4 gorillion people starve of every year because of capitalism"

In the near future our resource conflicts will be over alkaline battery components

@ubermensch 4 billion people starve in spite of capitalism

I know wtf I’m talking about just not the acronym used for it

Basically just metals used in electronics

Bread continues to remain scarce, as are the capital and intermediary goods requisite, as well labor, to the production, @Little Boots.

And batteries

This will always remain to be the case.

@Snake alkalines and Rare Earth Metals

Yeah that’s right

@Jeremy that is true. It's just so common in most western countries that there's little issue getting it.

It is REM

Not REE lmao

I feel like Jeremy should argue a anarcho communist

I used to do that a lot

I can't.

Argue with fucking anarcho communists

Friendly reminder that solar and wind energy will never be valid energy sources because there's not enough alkalines in the fucking planet to build enough batteries to store and distribute solar or wind power

I tend to suffer from braincell loss after those.

Trust me it’s definitely not worth your time lmao

Funny thing is they think we’re the dumbasses

100% True.

Solar and Wind is just not viable.

@UnfilteredGarbage
As we know of yet.

@UnfilteredGarbage but hopefully we can mine them from space one day

You would have to develop some form of higher-efficiency battery before we could ever make it efficient enough.

Goddamn I can’t wait for space exploration

@Snake that still wouldn't adress the other problems with those energy sources, their unpredictability and low efficiency, etc

More space and natural resources for humans to spread on

That's one of the main setbacks of alternative energy, yes

Mmmmm

Thanks to Capitalism, but there's certainly some subsidization going on, leading toward inefficient production of said intermediary goods, grown in climates without environmental advantage, meaning there's an inefficiency on the supply side. Further, there is surplus production, leading to waste, due to subsidization, @Little Boots. I always found it ironic how Communists would remark Capitalism also having an issue with surplus production, citing markets such as agriculture, when it was the market intervention of the government which caused it.