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>>11994425
Human needs are indeed not constant through time, just compare the bare minimum to exist today compared to the 17th century for example. It cannot be taken as a cue for what capitalism is good at because capitalism sets the tone for what the new standards are in the first place. You wouldn’t imagine people thought of phones as necessary in the Bonapartist periods, would you?

As I mentioned earlier, it is irrelevant even if capitalism did bring the living standards for everybody as they are in Scandinavia, say. We would not just tell ourselves “okay, we’re done here” but instead we will keep on revolutionising other aspects of life, and as long as the antagonism remains, we would be in the same predicament.