FRIDAY NIGHT TALK, 7.30pm WHAT IS POST-SCARCITY? 🗓

Friday 19 March
FRIDAY NIGHT TALK, 7.30pm
WHAT IS POST-SCARCITY?
Many apologists for capitalism are claiming, as they did in the 1960s, that technological developments under capitalism will gradually lead to a society of leisure and abundance. Peter Joseph explains why this won’t and can’t happen and also looks at what ‘post-scarcity’ means. Does it means ‘a universal abundance of everything’ or the technically efficient, non-wasteful use of resources to satisfy everybody’s likely material needs?