though, a requirement for this would be post-scarcity, for which it’s necessary that most daily and small luxury goods are available at little to no cost.
there are many pathways to this, but they require the economics and politics to be reoriented to focus on society’s needs, rather than those of a few; and that the incentive to act on society’s behalf is always more than to act against it.
We already overproduce everything that is necessary for daily life, food, housing, energy, clothes.
The problem with waiting for post-scarcity is it ignores that it’s a few assholes hording essential things especially housing that force us to work and earn those assholes more money and power, as long as that continues, increased production doesn’t matter as they’ll use the extra production to buy even more stuff we need to survive!
Ever see Star Trek?
A lot like that.
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though, a requirement for this would be post-scarcity, for which it’s necessary that most daily and small luxury goods are available at little to no cost.
there are many pathways to this, but they require the economics and politics to be reoriented to focus on society’s needs, rather than those of a few; and that the incentive to act on society’s behalf is always more than to act against it.
We already overproduce everything that is necessary for daily life, food, housing, energy, clothes.
The problem with waiting for post-scarcity is it ignores that it’s a few assholes hording essential things especially housing that force us to work and earn those assholes more money and power, as long as that continues, increased production doesn’t matter as they’ll use the extra production to buy even more stuff we need to survive!
Star Trek wouldn’t really function well as a society.
They hand waive away a lot of the issues. Like who gets to go to the outpost to extract dilithiim vs who gets to go be an artist.
I don’t think anyone in the Horta episode would be there if there wasn’t something more than “we just like rocks”
I think anyone who is doing mining by hand wants to be doing it. They easily have the technology to fully automate it.
They aren’t doing it by hand though.
The machines are just getting attacked by the horta because the miners are melting their eggs.