Comment by ferguess_k
10 months ago
I look forward to a world where people no longer need to sacrifice their curiosity to earn bread, clothes and basic housing. UBI would be a good start, but with the resources at hand we should be able to do more.
I look forward to a world where potentials are promptly discovered and put to be nurtured, instead of being wasted or randomly thrown to the society. Every one willing to share what they have learned or made are welcomed.
I look forward to a world that prevention of physical and mental illness is more recognized than treating them, or worse, extracting value from them.
I look forward to a world that citizens do not hesitate to speak out when they identify anything worrying. That is, they feel that they own the world, not be owned as some sort of human resources.
I look forward to a world that technological advance frees people, not keeping them enslaved.
I look forward to a world where monetary profit is not the dominating indicator for success and failure of an organization.
We are not the best species to achieve that, as we have selfishness in our mind. We need a mind capable of collective effort for greater good and we are just not able to do that, we are shaped to protect what we have and try to get more at the expense of others. Being truly generous and selfless is a conscious act that requires quite a bit of sacrifice.
I'm optimistic on AI enabling the passion economy helping out with this. If anyone can get their taste out there and an AI handles most of everything else (marketing, niching), people can focus on what they are good at (what they like).
I agree with all of this and hope it comes to pass. I don’t see how it’s possible without drastically changing the capitalist values that underpin our society.
I think capitalism is the best way to structure an economy, but it’s a terrible way to structure a society. Nowadays, we use capitalist values as the benchmark for what matters in almost every context, and then we wonder why our society is a dystopia.
Do you mean a market/profit-based economy when you say "capitalism"? Because it's becoming increasingly obvious that giving all the profit to the people with the investment capital is not a great way to structure either an economy or a society. There are other ways to harness the profit-motive than capitalism.
I agree. Capitalism definitely has its merit especially when comparing with Feudal, but then again, maybe we need something new after all those centuries.
I sincerely hope that we discover some serious alien stuffs (like TMA-1) so that humans can finally have a very good excuse to move ourselves to a new paradigm.
These are ideals of humanism.