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Never thought I'd see Pieper referenced on HN. Great point and reference. For everyone else, Leisure the basis of culture is worth reading and relevant here.
by rubidium 10y ago
Never thought I'd see Pieper referenced on HN. Great point and reference.
For everyone else, Leisure the basis of culture is worth reading and relevant here.
But finding a realistic economic system where the benefits of automation don't just benefit the top x% and lead to a morlocks and Eloi society is HARD!
- RobertoG 10y agoIt's not so hard to find it, it just it sounds too much as socialism. There are all kind of possible ideas. Just the other day I read about, instead of taxing corporations, make that a minority percentage is owned by the society. Not without its problems, but sounds like it would line up some bad incentives that we see now in action. At the end of the day, we always go back to who owns the means of production. As is always the case with humans, change it's not going to happen until we are in real trouble. Maybe not even then.