which most of us do

i should wonder if there are climate change deniers here or not

i seem to remember there are but i could be mixing up servers

climate change is an example of an existential threat that humans have addressed and are mostly dealing with

anti-vaxxer is the new climate change denier

what do you think a communist society would be like?

i'm afraid it could be terribly boring

there are also plain old climate change deniers but the resurgance of diseases might be considered an existential threat

a lot of people once they retire no longer know what to do and just waste away

there are also some ultra wealthy who after reaching that pinnacle start becoming nihilist

hopefully people in this society will have a lot of freedom. the communist part is that there are specialists dividing resources up among all the people people and planning production. so a more accurate term might be democratic socialism or, as i said earlier, technocracy. but it could certainly be called communist.

i imagine videogames, movies, music and art will become the normal form of entertainment. education too i imagine

certainly sports as well

everyone would be retired but could volunteer to do unnecessary jobs likely. it would be 100% voluntary, unless you count peer pressure

it could be fun tbh

Then we could devote all our time to the advancement of human knowledge

yeah

Which would be super cool

Oh yeah then we might end up with transhumanism

Which would be interesting to say the least

Hey Morty, check this out!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOp1b1obC04

@Leo (BillNyeLand) Visitor that automation advancing in rapid ways is the very long term, the UBI will cause inflation due to the reason above. I don't think Vat is a good way of "reducing overspending", not that all spending done naturally isn't "over" or "under", the best way is to abolish the fed and let the market control the interest rates, this will incentivise savings as the supply of real loanable funds will be low and interest rates will be high.

Yeah UBI is not tested but thats most likely what will happen, read above on why people getting $1k a year would cause problems.

@!AAmazing Hoping This is incorrect.

A labour force will always exist.

Despite what people say, a labour force will always exist and full automation will not happen. People will be working with more jobs we don't even know of today.

if full automation did happen and human labor was worth zero in the economy that would be really bad too imo

because people, men especially, are hard wired to work and contribute to society, and ubi would not resolve that

i bet there would be a wave of substance abuse and suicides

but i don't think that is going to happen either

i think, technology will continue to improve, and make our lives easier in some ways, and i'm betting the amount of poor people will increase

B-b-b-but inevitable Utopian Communism!

xD

they say, income inequality is increasing. meaning, the rich are richer, but most of us don't get richer. ok. but technology continues to improve. our lives continue to get easier/fuller because of that. think, smartphones automobiles refrigerators internet. the trend in capitalism is fewer people in absolute poverty (steven pinker). so just play that out over time. i'm not convinced automation will leave us with "nothing to do". people will still need to eat and we'll figure it out.

we'll figure it out aided by our more advanced technology

we have seen how smartphones have already brought new kind of jobs e.g., uber, could new technology bring other opportunties? e.g., automated farming equipment that is cheap and affordable? or other things we don't envision yet

@Eno_ You've got it wrong, income inequality is not really a problem

the rich get richer but the poor also get's richer

I highly doubt full automation will happen.

if you read my message i am arguing for why it isn't a problem