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> What we really need is Fully Automated Luxury Communism. This Time It's Different, honest.

• chillwaves 9y ago
  Every time it is different. How does this post contribute at all? Are you really saying things stay the same despite the HUGE, game-changing advances of technology? It's like you just dismiss all the information and discussion to post a pithy "lol communism suxx" response.
  • AnimalMuppet 9y ago
    The original communist claim was, essentially, that we could build paradise if only the workers/people owned the tools. That... didn't work out. Now the claim seems to be that it will work if only the people own the automated factories. That's close enough to the same claim for "this time it's different" to be a valid description of the claim. > Are you really saying things stay the same despite the HUGE, game-changing advances of technology? Agriculture was a huge, game-changing advance of technology. So was industrialization. We've seen them before. So claiming that this huge advance will make work obsolete requires a bit more than "but look, there's a huge advance!" > It's like you just dismiss all the information and discussion... I've seen lots of discussion, but not much information. Rhetoric, but not information. I mean, yes, factories are becoming more automated. That's true. It's not leading to a world where nobody needs to work, though. (Current US unemployment is below 4%. That's not looking like evidence for a world where nobody needs to work.)
    • chillwaves 9y ago
      > Current US unemployment is below 4%. What does this even mean? It's a very specific metric, not sure it is backing up your argument in the way you think. There are a lot of discouraged or under employed workers who would disagree that things are not changing in a fundamental way.