10-05-2018, 05:08 PM
The post-scarcity society could be a boon or a nightmare, depending on what skills and desires one has. The Marxist precept that the industrial worker has nothing to sell but his toil remains undeniably true irrespective of any technological advance. Skilled activities could at times vanish, as in some obsolete areas of computer work. Word processing and computer operating were once highly-desired occupations. They are vanishing.
We will need less raw labor except perhaps for (for all irony) farm labor. People will still need to eat.
Many things will be so cheap that they won't merit accounting for them. People will have so much stuff that they will not need more. More stuff simply means more clutter. The collection of inexpensive stuff will be absurd, like hoarding.
Manufactured status symbols will be pointless, as they will mean nothing.
We will need less raw labor except perhaps for (for all irony) farm labor. People will still need to eat.
Many things will be so cheap that they won't merit accounting for them. People will have so much stuff that they will not need more. More stuff simply means more clutter. The collection of inexpensive stuff will be absurd, like hoarding.
Manufactured status symbols will be pointless, as they will mean nothing.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.