Yeah. Some people already live like that but are hippies on the sidewalk of the capitalist system.
Post-scarcity economics? What’s hard to imagine about that?
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the fact that technological progress is inevitable and the fact that abundance should absolutely not create poverty? the contradictions seem to be obvious once it’s explained, communism is the riddle of history solved
I don’t, but that’s because I believe in IDIC, and that eventually it will win out.
This was also said in an era after a nuclear war wiped out a vast amount of the population, and the beacon of hope that brought us together was literally world changing.
We need that hope, but I feel like right now anti-matter science would just be used to make a bomb.
I realized after I commented this that this is an antiwork lemmy and not a Star Trek one. Fuck it, I’m leaving this here :).
Personally I think that the acquisition of wealth is inherent to what it is to be alive, especially if you think about it in terms of increasing the practical capability to get things enacted in the world. Technological progress and building infrastructure is still that thing.
obviously the startrek quote is meaning currency though and there’s nothing I disagree with there but still.
wealth in this case meaning use-value, of which the acquisition is important to the basic maintenance of one’s own life. Whereas financial value or exchange value is an intermediary and could theoretically cease to be meaningful (think: robots produce all goods, exchange value of everything important is less than pennies)
so what I said but in marxist
Imagining it? No!
Not every individual lives this way, communities as well, and have been for millennia.
IMHO, Getting societies Globally to shift away from this is the hard thing to strategize!
It’s not a driving force in my life today. In fact, it blows my mind that this is a driving force for anybody who has their needs met and lives in relative comfort. In fact, studies from US show that happiness tends to top out at around 100k income, and making more money doesn’t actually play any meaningful role past that. This basically comes back to Maslow’s pyramid of needs. Once people have their basic needs secured they start thinking about self actualization.
I absolutely love this vision of a post capitalist future.
It honestly is a matter of having a common goal. Without one everybody fends for itself. We don’t have a black hole drifting towards us or squids falling off from the sky in random places so individuals just go for themselves. Not everyone is like this of course but most are. So we are stuck in this hellish existence. Trying to have more wealth is not a bad thing per se, what is bad is not giving a dime about other beings.
