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This doesn’t sound like the “ideal situation”, it sounds like a dystopian nightmare. One that will literally never, ever happen, but that doesn’t stop people fr

This doesn’t sound like the “ideal situation”, it sounds like a dystopian nightmare. One that will literally never, ever happen, but that doesn’t stop people from trying, no matter how many hundreds of millions suffer and die in the process. Edit: I’ll also point out the irony that nothing has impoverished and starved as many people as your vision of utopia, and nothing has pulled as many people OUT of abject poverty like the inequality that you’re railing against. You can’t have markets without some degree of inequality, and billions of people TODAY are not starving to death because of market capitalism. And yet you continue to blindly suggest we kill the proverbial goose. I don’t understand.

zzt 8y ago
On the contrary, as we gradually grow further toward work being almost entirely automated, capitalism as we know it will wither and die. There is no market if machines do all the work. It may take centuries but in the end, the only equitable answer is full communism, managed by a benevolent artificial intelligence.
- noonespecial 8y ago
  Yes perhaps but just like letting toddlers drive your car, trying something that could be good in the future might have terrible consequences now.
  - zzt 8y ago
    Might do, might not. Either way, we need to plan for it.
- WalterBright 8y ago
  > It may take centuries but in the end, the only equitable answer is full communism, managed by a benevolent artificial intelligence. Sounds like hell to me. (I read a scifi story about this long ago. A man dies, and wakes up in a place where his every whim is instantly granted. After a while, he gets frustrated and tells the person in charge that paradise isn't what he expected. The person tells him he's not in paradise, he's in hell.)