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> For the same reason you can't look over to your neighbor's driveway and say, since he doesn't use his truck all day while he's at work, why can't I drive it ?
by grive 9y ago
> For the same reason you can't look over to your neighbor's driveway and say, since he doesn't use his truck all day while he's at work, why can't I drive it ?
Now.
This sense of ownership will be far more diluted once the truck is entirely automated and only needs ressources to run, while the knowledge that it could be far more efficiently allocated to be used by you at this time is made clear by our connected environment.
Then the same question will arise for your neighbor's truck: "why do we need to reserve ownership of these goods for the benefit of a limited portion of society?"
Starting from the fruit of labor, whole industries, to the minutiaes such as these. A connected world means that such micro-optimization would become possible.
So don't dismiss this on the basis that right now, this is not how we operate.
- chii 9y agoYour neighbour might not be using said truck right now, but it's availablity for use instantly is in itself valuable. Ownership gives you that. If it was shared, then you lose the instant availablity. Unless the automation creates free trucks for all to use, you scenario can't really come to pass.
- grive 9y ago> Unless the automation creates free trucks for all to use This is indeed pretty much the basis for these questions to arise. Not free of course, but such marginal cost that ownership would not mean much. When instead of 50 cars / trucks, you only need 15 and their cost is shared among the local community, with the price of buying one / maintainance very low due to automation, it will make sense to have this kind of system. Doesn't mean ownership would disappear, simply that for most people it would be more convenient / cheaper to use this system, and as such most people would choose to do so.
- chii 9y ago> such marginal cost that ownership would not mean much. wouldn't this situation make people own _more_ trucks, rather than less? Today, we already have the situation with yatchs - people tend not to own a yatch, but share with several families/people. And this is because yatchs are damn expensive to own. If yatchs are as cheap as a car, it'd be trivial to just buy one, even if you aren't using it very often.