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.

@UnfilteredGarbage look up issac author, he talks about sci fi shit that can actually work

Nuclear energy is still the safest and most efficient energy source imaginable

@Jeremy not disagreeing. My main point is that Bread isn't as uncommon as it was hundreds of years ago, but that doesn't mean there's some new form of scarcity beyond that.

It may not be perceivably scarce, under the current conditions, but it remains to be mathematically.

TL;DR: Scarcity is perpetual for most resources. You can efficiently produce resources and distribute them efficiently, but there is still a base limit to the amount that can be produced and, therefore, is limited.

There you go.

@Little Boots the bigger issue is that it's not really self-evident that totally eliminating scarcity would actually be good for humanity. People need SOMETHING to do, and not everyone or even a good slice of the population can be fulfilled sitting around and sucking their own dick all day

@UnfilteredGarbage *Insert weird sexual fantasies here.*

Here’s a perspective to think about, communism will destroy nations, like I’ve said and as they’ve said they’re internationalist that think the world can live together. Anarcho communists want no military or police force, because they want no state

The NIMH Rat Universe studies show what happens when you eliminate scarcity and competition in human-analogue society

That’s basically suicide for anyone who adopts that ideology

It's not fucking pretty

Plus old school communism will kill entire cultures and history