The Myth of Scarcity, Managed Care and Modern Malthusians

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The Myth of Scarcity, Managed Care and Modern Malthusians

by Susan Rosenthal

This article, updated and revised, is now available in my book, SICK and SICKER

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Lisa Geiger Says:
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:41 am

This is a very good article.

Food chain politics in a nut shell .

And the big one that is conveniently missed when the linear thinkers talk about scarcity is the multiplier factor, which can go both ways, but it has great power for good.

For example. A ten dollar bill, passed around by 10 people, has power of a 100, and a lack of a ten dollar bill, cannot be passed around by ten people so the loss of a power of a 100.

The problem is not the lack of things, but the price of things, and that is how capitalism’s destructive “tendency” takes over. The “wealthier” people become, the higher the demand, higher the price, that is the inflation we are always being warned about. And then over production then sudden collapse, price collapses and then deflation, people out of work. And that is what Marx warned about it in volume 3. Capitalism destroys itself.

It is just a matter of time, that food will be rotting in stores when at the same time people won’t be able to afford to buy food and then we will see the power of the people, and sadly probably the power of the military too.

I guess the power of the beast will rule for a while, and then hopefully something better will rise from the ashes.

Lisa Geiger Says:
October 3rd, 2009 at 8:41 am
This is a very good article.

Food chain politics in a nut shell .

And the big one that is conveniently missed when the linear thinkers talk about scarcity is the multiplier factor, which can go both ways, but it has great power for good.

For example. A ten dollar bill, passed around by 10 people, has power of a 100, and a lack of a ten dollar bill, cannot be passed around by ten people so the loss of a power of a 100.

The problem is not the lack of things, but the price of things, and that is how capitalism’s destructive “tendency” takes over. The “wealthier” people become, the higher the demand, higher the price, that is the inflation we are always being warned about. And then over production then sudden collapse, price collapses and then deflation, people out of work. And that is what Marx warned about it in volume 3. Capitalism destroys itself.

It is just a matter of time, that food will be rotting in stores when at the same time people won’t be able to afford to buy food and then we will see the power of the people, and sadly probably the power of the military too.

I guess the power of the beast will rule for a while, and then hopefully something better will rise from the ashes.

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