>"Unless we have reached the end point of humankind’s moral development, it is pretty certain that the average educated human of the twenty-third century will l

>"Unless we have reached the end point of humankind’s moral development, it is pretty certain that the average educated human of the twenty-third century will look back at the average educated human of the twenty-first century and ask incredulously about a considerable number of our most cherished moral and political axiom" While I generally sympathize with the article I think there's one issue where the ethics are going to be much more clearer than the economics being discussed. Animal rights. When this kind of thought experiment comes up that is the one thing I'm convinced people in a hundred years will consider us barbarians for, from experiments to factory farming. We hide it from ourselves already. Contentious current issues of inequality may be one thing but what we do to sentient life on the planet is what we're going to be judged for certainly. It's the one thing we never really go back on.