NoBody wrote:
> The Star Trek utopia assumes that everyone wants to work to their
> fullest potential. We see from our society that people just don't
> operate this way, which has nothing to do with Capitalism. Unless
> humanity changes on a whole, Star Trek is a dream.
It's a post scarcity society which is what we are approaching. We
each need approximately 3000 calories a day to survive. Originally
we had to devote most of the day every day to eat enough to sleep.
Since then we have created better stone tools, farming, metal
tools, complex technologies, and we're closing in test tube meat
and fully automated farm factories. Star Trek has crossed over to
everyone get all necessities of life without any human involved in
production. At that point you have each entire day to sleep, play
games, do physics research, anything you want.
We have strong systems to let society survive famine. But our
current crisis is the glut of overproduction. We make more than we
can use, and continuing to use the old distribution means people
cannot sell enough their time to buy what costs so little, which
means the people have even less work to sell their time for, and
the poor get poorer, while misdistribution make a few richer than
they can ever use.
Do you realise the moral imperative that 'you must work rather
play xbox all day' no longer serves society?
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