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Re:U.S. GDP Shrank in Q1 2015 by filoeleven on Friday May 29, 2015 @04:50PM (#9627307)
For an illustration of how this could work, see Manna by Marshall Brain.

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm

Re:U.S. GDP Shrank in Q1 2015 by pfisch on Friday May 29, 2015 @08:31PM (#9628334)
His "solution" at the end was some thinly veiled communism. His proposed economy didn't even make sense. There was nothing stopping people from accumulating wealth and basically taking over.
Re:U.S. GDP Shrank in Q1 2015 by wwweston on Friday May 29, 2015 @10:53PM (#9628689)
It's not clear that there is any other solution besides something you could call "thinly veiled communism." Either everybody gets some ownership or share in the productive capacity we're increasingly turning over to machines, or some people just get left out not because they're unwilling to contribute but because there's no labor market left.
Re:U.S. GDP Shrank in Q1 2015 by pfisch on Saturday May 30, 2015 @06:07PM (#9631935)
I guess here is one of the big problems with these solutions. Post scarcity is not even a thing. There will always be finite amounts of different resources or creations.

So even if we live in crazy robot utopia world people will be creating things that will still exist in finite amounts that they will trade for other objects that exist in finite amounts. In fact we really already do live in crazy robot utopia world and this is already happening. Almost no one is starving in america and millions of people live primarily on the dole. Those people living on the dole are living better than like 90% of the human race that has ever existed, they are just living relatively worse than the people who are employed or making a living.

In project australia or whatever it sounded like there were easy ways to consolidate resources because people still owned things and could barter them and eventually they would have all the resources and the monthly credit allowance would once again be welfare. I'm not even really sure what is wrong with capitalism as a system because life is getting better for everyone over time, and as long as ownership/monopoly isn't taken to its extreme things continue to work out.

Re:U.S. GDP Shrank in Q1 2015 by toomuchtodo on Monday June 01, 2015 @04:27PM (#9641892)
> Almost no one is starving in america

In 2013, 49.1 million Americans lived in food insecure households, including 33.3 million adults and 15.8 million children. [1]

> Those people living on the dole are living better than like 90% of the human race that has ever existed

How is this a metric we should be measuring on?

[1] http://www.feedingamerica.org/hunger-in-america/impact-of-hu...

Re:U.S. GDP Shrank in Q1 2015 by toomuchtodo on Friday May 29, 2015 @05:24PM (#9627556)
Thanks! Purchased the Kindle version!