wedrifid comments on Utopian hope versus reality - Less Wrong

23 Post author: Mitchell_Porter 11 January 2012 12:55PM

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Comment author: wedrifid 14 January 2012 12:49:54AM *  5 points [-]

We are in a utopia in many ways, and our paying our poorer non-utopian world-mates to do stuff is just what utopians do to help out non-utopians.

Paying our poorer non-utopian world- mates to do stuff is just what utopians do that helps out non-utopians. It certainly isn't to help out non-utopians. In fact often consumers have a slight preference for local made products over products made in (not remarkably high status) other countries. Some (the USA) even subsidize local products so as to beat foreign competition. So this is doing stuff that helps out non-utopians despite ourselves. Thank economics, not us!