• stoicmaverick@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    How does society build spacecraft, or do high energy physics research in this scenario? Sounds like paradise if you’re willing to stay in an agrarian society, but you have to be comfortable with life expectancy dropping like a rock from its current levels, because there would be no MRI machines, or gene therapy. These things are not the work of individuals, or even small groups working on handshake agreements. Contrary to how it might sound, I’m really not attacking the premise, I just want to make sure everyone understands what their advocating when they imply that this is how society should be.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, it was really feeling like you were just being contrarian. Which led me to not really try at all to engage with you further. But since it now seems you’re coming at this in good faith….

      I’m 100% on the same page with you about advanced technologies and science, though I do wonder if our individual happiness wouldn’t be greater with a bit less technology. The harnessing of tech/science to extract value out of people at the expense of mental health (corporate social media for example) is a cost that is hard to weigh against the advantages of modern health sciences.

      It’d be nice if we could find a way to achieve those things without the need for obscene concentration of wealth and this global tragedy of the commons perpetuated by companies and individuals that are so far removed from the impacts of their actions.

      There must be a letter way, and I have no clue how to figure it out or how we’d implement it… but the way things are now just… doesn’t feel good.

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      1 year ago

      Why do people want to become doctors, astronauts, invent medical devices, invent new technology, etc

      When you give people the choice to actually contribute to society with the things they enjoy doing then they will

      And menial tasks such as emptying a septic tank can be automated

      Right now the only way people can contribute to society in a way they enjoy is if they have enough money to do so, if not they are forced into doing jobs that they don’t enjoy and drain them

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          1 year ago

          I can think of a worse future than one where our rapid advances in technology and productivity afford us the ability to create more art and beauty without fear of destitution.

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          1 year ago

          There are always some that will “do nothing” if given the freedom to live as they want. Most won’t. What exactly will take the place of a 9 to 5 in a post Capitalist world? No idea. I’m not that smart. Humans do need more than simple pixie dust and altruistic motivations to do more than the most bare bones of things. That said, whatever the next system may be, it need not threaten peoples security (housing, food, and medical care) to be functional.

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        Right now you can contribute to society by doing work that matters which does not always require individual expenses.

        For example bar none the single most important job in any developed society is water purification. Working at the water utility is something you can do that benefits everyone and has no cost to yourself.

        The second most critical task is waste management which requires no money from the worker either.

        Im not being pedantic here. The claim you have to be wealthy to contribute is false

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          1 year ago

          Did you read my comment properly

          Some people may enjoy waste management or water purification but not all people do

          People also have to lay for the cost of transport, bills, taxes, food, shelter, etc

          People want to contribute to society in ways which they enjoy and tasks like water purification and waste management can be largely automated with notifications sent out to people overseeing the automation if there’s an issue

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            Lol, you think we can completely automate water systems and trash collection? What planet do you live on because those have NEVER been automated anywhere.

            I think you live in a dreamworld where people can just do whatever task fulfills them and all the unpleasant jobs are magically taken care of.

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              Do you think waste management is only the garbage people who come to collect your bin rubbish every week

              I think those garbage people need to come see you more often because it’s clear you’re making trash here in the comment section by arguing I’m bad faith

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                No I don’t think waste management is just picking up trash. Nothing in my comment suggests that I think that way.

                I did not say you made abad faith argument as I suspect you do believe these things can be automated. What I DID say was that your vision of how societies could function is unrealistic and ignorant of how things actually work. That is different than bad faith.