[Marxism] Eating is not over-consumption

[Barry Brooks <durable@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Consuming what we need is never over-consumption, but expanding 
production to produce jobs is requires wasted consumption. Eating is not 
over-consumption unless one is very fat. Yes, poor people consume too 
little. We should increase their consumption, but how?

Real conservation is something that would end the need to waste. Before 
we can talk about conservation we must understanding the difference 
between a stock of wealth and a flow of resources.

http://www.sd-commission.org.uk/publications/downloads/Herman_Daly_thinkpiece.pdf
 


The only way to provide food and shelter to the poor is for us to end 
our overconsumption. Our waste is not just what they can't have. Our 
continued waste will make it impossible to provide earth people with 
even the basics.

Expansion of productive forces is not required. Forget expansion. We can 
produce too much, but money and power prevent the poor from sharing in 
output. Misdirected output is the problem; not inadequate output.

The assumption of labor shortage may become true, once again, after 
hyper-active waste puts an end to our capacity to over-produce, and 
brings the third world back home. First we over-consume, then we will 
join the rest in hunger and violence. Expand now; starve later?

Balloons only expand for a while.

Barry





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