I have often heard of imagining a ‘post-scarcity’ society. Please forgive my lack of a socio-economic accredited graduate degree from a known university, but I might argue that we currently do live in such a society. First let me define ‘we’. I mean first worlders. Major cities in places like America, Japan, Germany. Maybe China too, though they aren’t “capitalist”. Places with GDPs in the top 20 nations. I believe that the place I live, and such places, no longer follow the laws of supply and demand that made up the rules for capitalist based societys.

At some point, it broke. Or rather was broken, and the cracks finally became apparent. I think COVID really did us in, in this case. There were supply issues, but not really, more like supply chain issues. No one went hungry. The nurses bitched about full hospitals on tik tok, but more or less, life was normal. And what should have been cause for some economic downers, actually found that corporations made money.

Especially in the digital age, price is no longer defined by actual supply and demand. Its like we have fiat supply and demand now. There is no shortage, of anything. And yet prices go up, not down. So it seems. And I believe it is because the coorps realized that you idiots will buy anything, for any price. Anything can be privatized and profitized beyond what anyone could imagine.

All you have to do is lie. Lie that prices need to go up, for whatever reason.

I will never starve. I will never be without healthcare. I will always have water and electricity. And yet, I pay more and more for these things than ever before. I can’t not pay for them. So I pay as much as possible for them, at increasing rates every year.

There are infinite movies, free and available. Yet I spend more per ticket and per bucket of popcorn for new movies.
The power utility to which I subject like a fucking feudal serf, is doing upgrading and maintenance, so my bill needs to go up rather than down.
The water used by tax advantaged super facilities owned by private equity, means that my water bill needs to go up.
Walmart can charge anything for tomato, or pasta, or chicken, and I’ll pay it to eat.
Restaurants can change whatever for a burger. So long as every burger place does it. What am I gonna do? Not go out.
Rent goes up, and housing costs, because if I don’t pay it, someone from somewhere else, will.

There isn’t a shortage of bread, or oil, or anything. There never will be. So none of the prices are real. And only in the past few years did the people selling things realize it. There’s infinite fiat money, and so the prices can infinite fiat prices. This has always been true for art. There is infinite art, and thus infinite prices for paintings of a single color gradient on cavas.

There is no scarcity. And so we need artificial exploitative scarcity. And my answer remains: How much slop are you willing to eat, piggy? Are you really going to pay anything they ask? For fucking legos? For fucking HBO? For a fucking chevy truck? For a burger? For clothes?
Be a good piggy and buy.