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there's already a drive toward giving up material possessions in favor of experiences. Robin Hanson calls this a "return to forager values" enabled by wealth a
by nazgulnarsil 15y ago
there's already a drive toward giving up material possessions in favor of experiences. Robin Hanson calls this a "return to forager values" enabled by wealth after we spent a time in farmer mode.
- felipemnoa 15y agoThe drive for experiences has always existed and there have always been people that prefer experiences instead of possessions. That is not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about the point in time where material possessions are so cheap that anybody can have them, whether you want them or not. i.e. Several decades ago only large institutions could own a computer. Now one can carry in their pockets computers that would have been considered super computers not very long ago and costing millions of dollars. See the trend? Eventually production will be almost as free as air, especially if we invent strong AI. What that future will be like is very hard to imagine. How will our culture change because of that? Especially our world culture.
- nazgulnarsil 15y agothis isn't a someday thing is what I'm trying to point out. Walmart has accelerated us well along this spectrum.