Communism as it has been tried was indeed flawed af. We’re going to need something else if we want to survive and be much more extreme than that. Your old communism was still a money economy, with the inherent problems thereof, functioned badly with greedy and fearful people at the top.
It’s always funny to me that when you tell them capitalism sucks you are a fan of 20th century East bloc regimes. No I’m not a tankie. Tankies are extremely stupid.
I fully agree we need something new. And I hope we get it. I can readily imagine better ways to tackle the problems we have.
The problem with “post scarcity” is that every time I dig into the details of what “post scarcity” government proposals are, they are basically just communism rehashed with some arm waving about “technology”, so until I see some better proposals than that, I am very skeptical of anyone proposing “post scarcity” as a solution. Hence why I replied to you with my feelings about communism. To me, they are the same things in their current incarnation. Even if you take away money. There is still some central government that is doling out resources, and someone doing the production of those resources which want some compensation for their work. I don’t see that changing any time soon. But maybe someday if we get true AGI and AGI robots, we can give them all the work and let them do this…
I’m sure someone will still try to slant the playing field their way like Musk is trying with Grok, though.
Communism as it has been tried was indeed flawed af. We’re going to need something else if we want to survive and be much more extreme than that. Your old communism was still a money economy, with the inherent problems thereof, functioned badly with greedy and fearful people at the top.
It’s always funny to me that when you tell them capitalism sucks you are a fan of 20th century East bloc regimes. No I’m not a tankie. Tankies are extremely stupid.
I fully agree we need something new. And I hope we get it. I can readily imagine better ways to tackle the problems we have.
The problem with “post scarcity” is that every time I dig into the details of what “post scarcity” government proposals are, they are basically just communism rehashed with some arm waving about “technology”, so until I see some better proposals than that, I am very skeptical of anyone proposing “post scarcity” as a solution. Hence why I replied to you with my feelings about communism. To me, they are the same things in their current incarnation. Even if you take away money. There is still some central government that is doling out resources, and someone doing the production of those resources which want some compensation for their work. I don’t see that changing any time soon. But maybe someday if we get true AGI and AGI robots, we can give them all the work and let them do this…
I’m sure someone will still try to slant the playing field their way like Musk is trying with Grok, though.