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You had the answer yourself. Legislation. Government-run factories for the benefit of the people.
by cheez 6y ago
You had the answer yourself. Legislation. Government-run factories for the benefit of the people.
- negamax 6y agoYou mean governments nationalize the factories?
- adamnemecek 6y agoBuild new ones.
- cheez 6y agoeither/or. History is full of these types of tradeoffs. In the completely hypothetical example from above, it would be worth it to figure something out.
- negamax 6y agoI have another theory. Which is that people will beat machines and create and pursue things that we can't even imagine at the moment. I am rooting for human creativity over machines' brute incredible strength. Even if that's not possible, that's what we should strive for
- hvis 6y agoYou could see it in the history of countries that went through a socialist phase (such as Russia): it works, until it doesn't. As soon as there is no personal incentive (or real ability) to improve things, the tech sector starts to stagnate and fall behind the rest of the world.
- cheez 6y agoThe hypothetical case was zero human input, self sustaining factories that rely on renewable energy. In that hypothetical case... How could nationalizing screw it up since there is no human or non-renewable input required? I guess they can "overuse it" so we all become Eloi but we're on the way there anyway.
- hvis 6y agoThis implies having all the necessary factories for all things, to begin with. Which seems utopic to begin with, right? With renewable energy, etc, the country shouldn't fall apart like USSR did, but it is almost certain to fall prey to more entrepreneurial/militaristic neighbors, sooner or later.
- cheez 6y agoFortunately it's a completely hypothetical situation.