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The future wars, I think will be more civil unrest due to income inequality. Eventually, I see us moving more towards a star-trek like society when we have full

The future wars, I think will be more civil unrest due to income inequality. Eventually, I see us moving more towards a star-trek like society when we have full-automation. Nobody needs to work, but everyone can contribute in terms of research and scientific studies or art/etc... Service jobs won't be needed, but we as a civilization can't just sit idle. We still need fulfillment so whether there's money or not at that point we need to encourage future fulfillment else we die out from sheer boredom. I like to hope we move past all our petty differences, embrace the humanity that we are one single species. Then we drop the super stars, celebrity adoration, and desire to be uber wealthy and 'control' other people and we can focus more on arts and sciences. Arts for people to enjoy life, sciences for people to explore what's out there. Imagine if the only careers were in entertainment and science/research what we could accomplish and imagine if everyone had equal footing to go into their chosen path. If we had 10x the scientists or 100x the scientists working on global problems and even intergalactic ones. We might actually make it to the stars. But before we get there --there will be unrest and wars, just more middle class vs elites. Also potential wars for water as it becomes more scarce if we don't fix global warming soon.

beat 7y ago
Civil unrest that gets expressed via stable democratic institutions is just fine. My concern is wars and violent revolutions, which (hopefully) are on their way out. I dream of a day when wage labor is looked back on as almost as oppressive and horrible as chattel slavery. We're a long way from that, though. The technology is almost here, but the political will is not. The trick, then, is fulfillment. How do we give our lives meaning, if not through our labor? And how do we fight the brutal addictions of social media and passive consumption in order to achieve individual meaning? I fear a future where we don't have to work, but rather spend all our time sharing memes about how lonely and depressed we are.

beat 7y ago

Civil unrest that gets expressed via stable democratic institutions is just fine. My concern is wars and violent revolutions, which (hopefully) are on their way out. I dream of a day when wage labor is looked back on as almost as oppressive and horrible as chattel slavery. We're a long way from that, though. The technology is almost here, but the political will is not. The trick, then, is fulfillment. How do we give our lives meaning, if not through our labor? And how do we fight the brutal addictions of social media and passive consumption in order to achieve individual meaning? I fear a future where we don't have to work, but rather spend all our time sharing memes about how lonely and depressed we are.