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> Socialism might work in that world Technically, what you've just described is Georgism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/

> Socialism might work in that world Technically, what you've just described is Georgism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgism The real question is, in a truly post-labor future, how do workers have enough leverage to negotiate for any particular change in the economic system?

kubb 1y ago
Violence. Unfortunately.
- HeyImAlex 1y ago
  In the times of the French Revolution that was enough, but I think technology is obsoleting us there too. If evil oligarch can make a bunker and ten million $100 kill bots, I don’t think the people are rising up unless existence is worse than death, and even then they might not win.
  - kubb 1y ago
    Back to feudalism, huh?
    - Gud 1y ago
      No, survival of the fittest. In this case, the people whose ancestors were better at hogging resources.
      - kubb 1y ago
        Survival of the shittiest?
        ryandrake 1y ago
        Most of human history has been Survival of the Shittiest.
  - mackeye 1y ago
    colonial revolutions tended to be fought by those for whom death was preferable to existence. i don't disagree that, in this age, the chance of success is slimmer, and will continue to shrink as such --- there's probably some critical mass of capital fortification which is unpenetrable without worker leverage