Re:Trends that will create demand for an Unconditional Basic...
by TeMPOraL on Thursday July 11, 2013 @05:19PM
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> Sweet! None of us have to work anymore! Party at my place every night for life!
As Nursie said as well, that's the whole fucking point. The fact we don't live like this today is an atrocity.
It seems that you don't understand the kind of world we're headed to. Energy abundance + automation = dirt cheap manufacturing. At first mostly by economies of scale, later literally dirt-cheap, as pretty much everything you could imagine can be made from dirt, power and a bit of advanced manufacturing tech we don't yet have but we know how it will work [0]. Energy abundance + automation + ever better software = most service jobs gone, most knowledge jobs disappearning, and people getting quickly optimized out of economy.
There is a potential for everything to be free because it doesn't have to cost anything. The only reason we would like that not to happen is some kind of weird stockholm-syndromish love for slavery (i.e. work).
Maybe we should stop working on life extension as well because we were meant to work hard and then die.
[0] - actually, we have it, but it's not ours and we can't control it yet. But it works. You and I are examples of it. Biology is nothing but an highly advanced tech we haven't master so far.
As Nursie said as well, that's the whole fucking point. The fact we don't live like this today is an atrocity.
It seems that you don't understand the kind of world we're headed to. Energy abundance + automation = dirt cheap manufacturing. At first mostly by economies of scale, later literally dirt-cheap, as pretty much everything you could imagine can be made from dirt, power and a bit of advanced manufacturing tech we don't yet have but we know how it will work [0]. Energy abundance + automation + ever better software = most service jobs gone, most knowledge jobs disappearning, and people getting quickly optimized out of economy.
There is a potential for everything to be free because it doesn't have to cost anything. The only reason we would like that not to happen is some kind of weird stockholm-syndromish love for slavery (i.e. work).
Maybe we should stop working on life extension as well because we were meant to work hard and then die.
[0] - actually, we have it, but it's not ours and we can't control it yet. But it works. You and I are examples of it. Biology is nothing but an highly advanced tech we haven't master so far.