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To attribute economic crises to scarcity in nature, as did Malthis, is to confess an inability to adapt technologies, cultures and social and economic forms to metabolic relations more adequate to capital's (or our) requirements. The concept of scarcity is no natural but a product of capital's marketing practices.

... The question of what kind of city we (and capital) build is not independent of what kind of people we want to become.

. . . The more the workers struggle to fashion a reasonable life for themselves, the more capital concludes that this is because capital has been too generous and that a general reduction in wages is in order.