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Socialism is inevitable. We just need to first develop technological systems which can assist the proletariat in identifying and eliminating corruption by the
by cwkoss 9y ago
Socialism is inevitable. We just need to first develop technological systems which can assist the proletariat in identifying and eliminating corruption by the elite and/or powerful.
We can already afford to feed and house every person on the planet, probably several times over. Yet many are still hungry and homeless. It is not a lack of capital so much as a resource allocation problem - how do you 'throttle' greed so that you still motivate productive work without allowing those with disproportionate power to game the system in their favor. Technology can help us solve this.
- Fins 9y agoYou should start with breeding a new kind of humans, ones that would be compatible with socialism. Of course alternatively, you could just kill a vast majority of them; that's the approach most people attempting to implement socialism end up taking (viz. anything from Soviet Russia to Khmer Rouge). Alas, every time in the output you get lots of mass graves, but no workable socialism.
- wilsonnb 9y agoI think that the idea of technology saving us from our inherent natural tendencies is nice to think about but ultimately naive.