We agree.
We just see the Postmodern moment going in different directions.

To quote an AG-friendly thing that Dante is often fond of saying, since I think it's apropos here: "O rlly??"

Oh no, the banks and the insurers have nothing to with that in your world, I guess... Come on!!

Um, where did I say they weren't? To the contrary I agree with you, because banks and insurance companies are part and parcel fixtures of a capitalist system, and would not exist in a classless resource-based economy that had no use for money.

You *do* know that producing higher education or health is cheaper now than it ever was; and that its inflation is a sure sign of a Bubble.

But they sure as hell aren't charging less for them as time goes on (quite the opposite!), which shows exactly how untenable the system is. It doesn't charge on the basis of being "fair" in regards to how cheaply it can be produced, but rather at an ever increasing level to make more profits for the capitalist class at the expense of the working class. Trying to make capitalism "fair" to the working class goes against the very purpose of production for profit.

It is. Do you have any idea how many books and music CDs on Amazon are printed on demand? Of course, that's only the biggest seller, on the products easiest to make on demand. But the whole economy is moving there. Unsurprisingly, only agriculture and mining are really not.

But that is still a form of mass production, because there is the capacity to produce as many of these items as needed or wanted by everyone who needs or wants one. That is increasingly defeating any amount of sense behind the concept of charging people money for items that can be produced so quickly, and in such abundance. The monetary, for profit system and its attendant class divisions only make sense in the type of society where production is difficult, and its not technologically possible to produce an abundance for all, but only for a few.

Another strawman. A shop is a service, not a product.

Not a strawman, because both industries and services are privately owned by a few in a capitalist economy, but both productive and distributive property would be socially owned in a resource-based economy.

Oh well you can still youtube her.

Just because I can do something doesn't mean I should, right?