#artificialscarcity — Public Fediverse posts

#Capitalism is based on scarcity of resources, natural or artificial. It is fundamentally incapable of handling extreme abundance. #ArtificialScarcity

I randomly bought this book in a quirky bookshop in Copenhagen for the sole reason that it said all the wrong things right on the cover.

(Sales: the single most important profession. NLP™: not natural language processing but neuro-linguistic programming. Meta: the Meta Model™ and Meta Publications™.)

I just started reading it and boy oh boy, I was not disappointed. It's outrageously hilarious.

"Persuasion engineering".
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL3003250W/Persuasion_engineering

#RichardBandler #Sales #ArtificialScarcity

Bitcoin is not digital gold. Gold is a separate mineral that comes from the Earth. Bitcoin is artificial scarcity, artificial wealth redistribution, and legalized gambling.

#BitcoinCritique #DigitalGold #ArtificialScarcity #WealthRedistribution #GamblingRisk #CryptoDebate #GoldVsBitcoin #CryptoCriticism #FinancialFreedom #MarketManipulation #CryptoTruth #InvestSmart #EconomicDebate #BlockchainIssues #MoneyMatters #CryptoSkeptic #GoldStandard #FinanceTalk #CryptoFlaws #RealityCheck

Economists Invented Austerity And Paved the Way to Fascism.
WE MUST FIGHT BACK!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pkn0296wKFk

understand the scam of economic oppression…

#Austerity #Fascism #Scam #ArtificialScarcity #WealthTransfer #ClassWar #PunchDown #Misery #Profit

"Programs like the New Deal, the GI Bill, or the UK’s vast program of counsel housing showcased Western governments not just as pillars of capitalist values but also as architects of quasi-communistic structures. Initiatives like the Works Progress Administration or the military itself demonstrated state capacity for collective organization on a mass scale.

The postwar boom lifted millions of regular (predominantly white) people into new middle-class lives typified by safety, social dignity, consumerism, creative opportunity, and rest. Advances in automation, building materials, and agriculture supported this transformation, which proved that governments could create powerful systems of public good overnight. By the 1960s, the children of those who had demonstrated this collective power dreamed of applying that capacity on a global scale, regardless of race, gender, and nationality.

Instead, we got nothing but scarcity.

In Acid Communism — a title that winks at our need to re-aestheticize everyday life, elevate our consciousness, and see through the paper tiger of capitalist realism — Fisher points to scarcity and artificial restriction as the primary generator of wealth for those in charge of the postwar order.

Inflation was the buzzword of the 2024 election, which was due in part to real scarcity — as were the various supply chain crisis during the pandemic, which made the richest Americans 40 percent richer. But corporations have also been price-gouging without consequence, creating a form of artificial scarcity that erodes the value of pay increases through inflation. Fisher identifies this pattern as a defining feature of neoliberal capitalism: “A system that generates artificial scarcity in order to produce real scarcity; a system that produces real scarcity in order to generate artificial scarcity.”"

https://jacobin.com/2025/01/mark-fisher-neoliberalism-acid-communism/

#Capitalism #Neoliberalism #LateStageCapitalism #ArtificialScarcity #Abundance #CapitalismRealism

"The ghostly emptiness of capitalist realism obscures the potential for collective joy and abundance. Mark Fisher’s writing offers a glimpse of the possibilities that lie beyond the seeming inevitability of the present."

https://jacobin.com/2025/01/mark-fisher-neoliberalism-acid-communism

#CapitalistRealism #MarkFisher #ArtificialScarcity #CulturalTheory

Artificial Scarcity, Typeface, Hakapik, Lobotomite

The Rockus-Espace Tapage, Thursday, 18 April (20:00)

https://montreal.askapunk.net/event/artificial-scarcity-typeface-hakapik-lobotomite

Artificial Scarcity, Typeface, Hakapik, Lobotomite

The Rockus-Espace Tapage, Thursday, 18 April (20:00)

https://montreal.askapunk.net/event/artificial-scarcity-typeface-hakapik-lobotomite

Artificial Scarcity, Typeface, Hakapik, Lobotomite

The Rockus-Espace Tapage, Thursday, 18 April (20:00)

https://montreal.askapunk.net/event/artificial-scarcity-typeface-hakapik-lobotomite

Artificial Scarcity, Typeface, Hakapik, Lobotomite

The Rockus-Espace Tapage, Thursday, 18 April (20:00)

https://montreal.askapunk.net/event/artificial-scarcity-typeface-hakapik-lobotomite

Data caps are an example of artificial scarcity because bits themselves aren't a finite resource. This is different to bandwidth and storage which can genuinely be limited.

#DataCaps #ArtificialScarcity

@DrMikeWatts
Nature’s paywall is so high that we may never know.
Zero Marginal Cost
#ArtificialScarcity

@natureworks
Let's be clear what happened.

Russia oil trade to the West stopped AND Saudi Arabia cut production. No one else increased production (even to 2019 levels)

Leveraging the new #ArtificialScarcity , all the energy companies started #PriceGouging and reaping record profits

Afraid of civil disorder, governments cracked down on profiteering to keep costs sensible.

Nah, just kidding, government directly subsidised #FossilFuel extreme profits.

#EnergyIndependenceIsGreen

@OpenInfra honest feedback: no matter if your conference is any good or not, to me this kind of marketing based around #fomo and #artificialscarcity is a red flag, and i would wish for people in the opensource comminity to avoid such dark patterns.

Biden Administration’s Economic Report Deems Crypto Assets ‘Mostly Speculative Investment Vehicles’

https://news.bitcoin.com/biden-administrations-economic-report-deems-crypto-assets-mostly-speculative-investment-vehicles/

#EconomicReportofthePresident #DistributedLedgerTechnology #financialintermediaries #decentralizedfinance #financialregulations #RegulatoryCompliance #BidenAdministration #financialinnovation #illicitfinancerisks #artificialscarcity #financialstability #financialsystem

Biden Administration’s Economic Report Deems Crypto Assets ‘Mostly Speculative Investment Vehicles’

https://news.bitcoin.com/biden-administrations-economic-report-deems-crypto-assets-mostly-speculative-investment-vehicles/

#EconomicReportofthePresident #DistributedLedgerTechnology #financialintermediaries #decentralizedfinance #financialregulations #RegulatoryCompliance #BidenAdministration #financialinnovation #illicitfinancerisks #artificialscarcity #financialstability #financialsystem

Vim is $0 today! Get into this powerful editor before it’s too late.

#blackfriday #artificialscarcity

Adapted from @bighi

Emacs is $0 today! Get into this powerful editor before it’s too late.

#blackfriday #ArtificialScarcity

Water water everywhere not a drop to drink...#waterscarcity #lwater #draught #eattherich #luxury #righttolife #RightToWater #artificialscarcity #anarchist

@espectalll

"It's apparently not worth the effort..."

== #ArtificialScarcity

The effort at this point is relatively low but the ROI is virtually zero or even negative. There is more revenue potential in rent-seeking by having IoT devices "phone home" to corporate servers they can charge monthly for than there is in end users having stable addresses so their devices are self hosted.

Thus the lack of incentive, at least at this point, especially for "*aas" providers (non carriers/pure ISPs)

@espectalll @Dee it's not laziness it's the #ArtificialScarcity enabled by preserving the much smaller IPv4 address space.