I need a rubber band and I don't know how to get one. I know that there will be rubber bands at the store, but there will not be *one* rubber band. The store will sell me 200 rubber bands but will not sell me one
This is a challenge to the entire system of society. My inability to obtain a single rubber band is a specific and direct result of the model of personal property ownership we have adopted. It shows that model failing
@mcc is... that even true
rubber bands are wasteful to distribute in qty 1; the economic system does not change it
@whitequark Rather than distributing many boxes of 200 rubber bands to the area and expecting everyone to buy a box and let them rot in a drawer they could distribute like 200 rubber bands to the area and you could just sorta grab one when you need it
This would be solved by a communism but would also be solved by localist capitalism; a general store run by one person rather than a corporation would let me go in and be like "i want 5 rubber bands" "okay, i'll open the box and uh… five cents??!"
@mcc *was* this solved by communism
like i guess it was in the sense that you probably had a job and the jobsite probably had rubber bands
but this is still true under capitalism. just. need an office
But that only applies to things that are likely to be present at a jobsite, so people who don't work next to a workshop/lab/something like that will still have the same problem with stuff like assorted resistors.
