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Free healthcare would be great but if I am building my utopian society, I would first address the need for healthcare in the first place. Automation would make

Free healthcare would be great but if I am building my utopian society, I would first address the need for healthcare in the first place. Automation would make healthy living choices super easy so that people could naturally gravitate towards lifestyles that avoided the need for healthcare at our current demands. You will often see debates here on HN about who should pay for healthcare but I think that is a cart before the horse problem. At the current growth in chronic health issues I do not foresee nations continuing to exist. Who pays for what? Doesn't matter, nobody will be able to afford 8 billion people having chronic health issues. Someone has to solve that first, then we can figure out who pays for the remaining issues. The advanced housing tech would also be designed so that you already know 99% of your health issues without even walking into a clinic. All that data remains on premise and under your control. Acute issues? No problem, lay down in the operation chamber. The system renders you unconscious and you wake up fully repaired and more healthy.

spywaregorilla 5y ago
The largest driver of chronic health conditions is people being fat, because they are poor and their diet is terrible.
- LinuxBender 5y ago
  Exactly. That is something this theoretical utopian system should address. Our planet has an abundance of resources that can be fully automated and self sustaining if done correctly.
  - spywaregorilla 5y ago
    and who pays the poor people whose jobs get automated out?
    - LinuxBender 5y ago
      Nobody. Those people don't exist since we are building a new bubble from scratch. We are creating a utopian society funded by a multi-billionaire. There are no poor people. Everyone living in this theoretical bubble gets free food, housing, healthcare, entertainment, etc... But you are right, if this bubble has any dependencies on people outside of the bubble they might be poor and miserable. They would have to get on the list to migrate into this society. In full disclosure, I don't see any of this as a utopia but rather a highly dystopian society. It is the basis for some movies and books. But I am just playing along with the idea.

spywaregorilla 5y ago

The largest driver of chronic health conditions is people being fat, because they are poor and their diet is terrible.

LinuxBender 5y ago
Exactly. That is something this theoretical utopian system should address. Our planet has an abundance of resources that can be fully automated and self sustaining if done correctly.
- spywaregorilla 5y ago
  and who pays the poor people whose jobs get automated out?
  - LinuxBender 5y ago
    Nobody. Those people don't exist since we are building a new bubble from scratch. We are creating a utopian society funded by a multi-billionaire. There are no poor people. Everyone living in this theoretical bubble gets free food, housing, healthcare, entertainment, etc... But you are right, if this bubble has any dependencies on people outside of the bubble they might be poor and miserable. They would have to get on the list to migrate into this society. In full disclosure, I don't see any of this as a utopia but rather a highly dystopian society. It is the basis for some movies and books. But I am just playing along with the idea.