kropotkhristian:

I feel like the fact that Photoshop and other Adobe products cost hundreds of dollars and are gatekept behind walls of copyright protection, even though they really cost absolutely nothing to copy or reproduce, should tell you how far capitalism will go to sustain itself. Literally every person with a computer could he given Photoshop for free at no cost to anyone, but it isnt. This is artificial scarcity at it’s most blatant and obvious.

Capitalism finds a way to continue itself unless it is explicitly abolished. If we could spontaneously produce food, capitalism would still gatekeep it and people would still starve and die. Where we already have abolished scarcity for absolute certain, they already do that in almost the exact same relationship.