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Ah yes, with the title "Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better." If anything the "You'll own nothing and be happy" is
by andrewclunn 3y ago
Ah yes, with the title "Welcome to 2030. I own nothing, have no privacy, and life has never been better." If anything the "You'll own nothing and be happy" is LESS distopian than the essay. I mean, unless you don't read it as a peon completely beaten down into Stockholm syndrome. Plus it's all predicated on "free energy" and other such fantasies, while STILL looking like a nightmare to anyone who reads it.
- majormajor 3y ago> Once in awhile I get annoyed about the fact that I have no real privacy. No where I can go and not be registered. I know that, somewhere, everything I do, think and dream of is recorded. I just hope that nobody will use it against me. She coulda beat people over the head with stuff like this more, but it's pretty clearly not a strictly utopian view there... Even this, right: > Environmental problems seem far away, since we only use clean energy and clean production methods. and the later complaints about how there "used to be" > lifestyle diseases, climate change, the refugee crisis, environmental degradation, completely congested cities, water pollution, air pollution, social unrest and unemployment Like, we're clearly not actually solving all those problems by "free transportation of tools instead of buying them", we're just ignoring them.
- anigbrowl 3y agoYou're not supposed to take everything you read as a policy prescription, especially in works of imaginative speculation.
- andrewclunn 3y agoBut if that's exactly what the WEF did...