I get the humor and sentiment in your comment, but I imagine that without the threat of oppression, genocide and war that the west inflicts on the Global South, people would be more willing and able to have all kinds of fun, and easier trade. Which would mean more video game consoles and games being sold, and probably cheaper prices.
The quality of the goods would go up, but cheaper prices and higher quantities is debatable.
Imperialism allows for a massive over consumption of goods/services in the core. Maybe over time, production in the core will return and consumption will reach its old heights (assuming the environmental question can be solved).
In the short term, after the elimination of the military apparatus of imperialism, it will be very difficult to convince poorer countries to keep sending so much surplus value to the west, or for them to continue to over export at bargain bin prices.
I’m moreso talking about the medium and long term, I doubt cheaper prices would happen immediately.
I’m talking about that as countries develop technologically, socially, and supply chain-wise, prices of basic and advanced goods and services and reduced cost for materials and resources as countries industrialize or reindustrialize, especially along socialist lines and actual democracy becomes the status quo, in the long run most things will become cheaper, because post-scarcity will be in sight.
In a meaningful sense, with climate change and resource depletion, even with a world socialist government, post-scarcity won’t be in sight for a few decades. We’ll need those purely to eliminate our carbon footprint.
I’m aware of the gargantuan scale it will take to achieve global effective zero-emissions, I just think that people underestimate how surprisingly easily and rapidly this can be achieved. The amount of resources it would take are also surprisingly low, and even without taking into account robust-supply chains, technologically innovation and socialism, I suspect that post-scarcity could being as soon as a decade after effective zero-emissions is achieved. Of course there are thousands of factors, and post-scarcity will mean different things in different contexts with different levels of advancement and different materials and conditions.
I’ve read multiple studies about this, and one of the most robust studies I found, said that globally speaking, the entire planet could ditch fossil fuels and switch to 100 percent renewable energy/purely green technology, effective zero-emissions, and still have more than enough power to keep society more functional and connected than it is today, and provide a nearly 1st-world standard of living for every person on Earth, in as little as 5 YEARS.
The study noted though that this effort would be roughly on the same scale and require even more global effort/cooperation than the Allies had during World War 2.
I get the humor and sentiment in your comment, but I imagine that without the threat of oppression, genocide and war that the west inflicts on the Global South, people would be more willing and able to have all kinds of fun, and easier trade. Which would mean more video game consoles and games being sold, and probably cheaper prices.
The quality of the goods would go up, but cheaper prices and higher quantities is debatable.
Imperialism allows for a massive over consumption of goods/services in the core. Maybe over time, production in the core will return and consumption will reach its old heights (assuming the environmental question can be solved).
In the short term, after the elimination of the military apparatus of imperialism, it will be very difficult to convince poorer countries to keep sending so much surplus value to the west, or for them to continue to over export at bargain bin prices.
I’m moreso talking about the medium and long term, I doubt cheaper prices would happen immediately.
I’m talking about that as countries develop technologically, socially, and supply chain-wise, prices of basic and advanced goods and services and reduced cost for materials and resources as countries industrialize or reindustrialize, especially along socialist lines and actual democracy becomes the status quo, in the long run most things will become cheaper, because post-scarcity will be in sight.
In a meaningful sense, with climate change and resource depletion, even with a world socialist government, post-scarcity won’t be in sight for a few decades. We’ll need those purely to eliminate our carbon footprint.
I’m aware of the gargantuan scale it will take to achieve global effective zero-emissions, I just think that people underestimate how surprisingly easily and rapidly this can be achieved. The amount of resources it would take are also surprisingly low, and even without taking into account robust-supply chains, technologically innovation and socialism, I suspect that post-scarcity could being as soon as a decade after effective zero-emissions is achieved. Of course there are thousands of factors, and post-scarcity will mean different things in different contexts with different levels of advancement and different materials and conditions.
I’ve read multiple studies about this, and one of the most robust studies I found, said that globally speaking, the entire planet could ditch fossil fuels and switch to 100 percent renewable energy/purely green technology, effective zero-emissions, and still have more than enough power to keep society more functional and connected than it is today, and provide a nearly 1st-world standard of living for every person on Earth, in as little as 5 YEARS.
The study noted though that this effort would be roughly on the same scale and require even more global effort/cooperation than the Allies had during World War 2.