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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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We live in a post information scarcity society and we still haven't moved on from capitalism. (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Edit: Changed title to be more accurate.

Also here is the summary from Wikipedia on what Post-scarcity means:

Post-scarcity is a theoretical economic situation in which most goods can be produced in great abundance with minimal human labor needed, so that they become available to all very cheaply or even freely. Post-scarcity does not mean that scarcity has been eliminated for all goods and services but that all people can easily have their basic survival needs met along with some significant proportion of their desires for goods and services. Writers on the topic often emphasize that some commodities will remain scarce in a post-scarcity society.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Perhaps we live in a post DATA scarcity society. But information is still a scarce commodity

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think that we do live in a society where information is not scarce because the ease of replicating any information has increased significantly.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

That does not mean everyone has access to it

[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago

The idea in relation to capitalism is referring to information from a physics standpoint, not from a data analysis standpoint, as in Information Theory and it's laws as opposed to the laws that govern matter / energy.