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https://www.reddit.com/r/ezraklein/comments/1jzozuw/why_trump_could_lose_his_trade_war_with_china/
The podcast itself is quite interesting if you can handle moments of extreme liberalism, both hosts admit that china is living in the future and that America has failed on a structural level
I never googled abundance liberalism. The definition is even worse than I expected.
I always find it so hilarious that neoliberals will simultaneously build their lives and world views around hypothetical technological solutions that will resolve resource/logistical realities like magic and then turn around and say that the problem with Communism is that its too utopian or idealistic.
Even Ayn Rand had to invent a magical power source for her book.
Yes let's build an ideology around that.
A concept so genius it can be debunked by thinking about hunger for 5 seconds
Me: "Hey, Ezra! I bet you've already heard lots of 'better than Ezra' jokes so I won't poke fun at you in that way. But I really want to know how 'abundance liberalism' deals with crises like the dire shortage of affordable housing."
Ezra Klein: "I will ignore the 'better than Ezra' joke. And I'll jump right in and answer your question about housing. But first I have a lot - a lot(!) - to explain!" And he speaks for about five minutes. Impressively he entirely ignores all issues related to housing other than to very vaguely say "A focused-goal target of abundance liberalism is the structural implementation of foundations to improve access to affordable housing."
Haven't we already proved that doesn't work with things like food, where we already have more than enough but people still go hungry? I'm sure there's tons of other examples, too, that show that capitalism encourages artificial scarcity.