Vidar Hokstad / Galaxy Bound@TruthSandwich @jhavok @futurebird His argument isn't that capitalism requires endless growth, but that capitalism running out of new markets has to compete on cost of production rather than expansion, and that this 1) will drive us towards post-scarcity, 2) will drive the demand for labour towards zero. His contention is then a) that society won't address 2 (e.g. by redistribution, UBI, or whatever), because the state represents the ruling classes, and b) this will eventually cause upheaval.
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