As to the last question, No.
It is Capitalism that requires for its existence steadily expanding wants.
Gene Coyle
David Shemano wrote:
> Charles wrote:
>
> <<<Yes, but the claim is that with the abolition of private
> property it will be possible to abolish poverty and war. There will
> always be new forms of struggle for humanity, with costs and risks,
> but everyone can be free of material want, at least as compared with
> how it is now.>>>
>
> Why would abolishing private property free people from material want? I can
> understand the theoretical argument that abolishing private property would
> free people from poverty, but is not material want relative and unrelated to
> absolute levels of wealth? Do not many wealthy people act as if they want
> even more material wealth? And is that not a constant across history,
> culture, and economic system?
>
> David Shemano
