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TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Tomorrow the Epstein files will be released, 70% of all politicians and most billionaires will be arrested for pedophilia, and we will come together as one to build luxury space communism

  Don’t wake me up.

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  • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Luxury communism is wrong even ideologically.

    No kind of communism I know aimed for luxury even in theory. You are supposed to spend lots of effort to develop your true self, in some. In others, you are supposed to be only one detail in the humongous mechanism of humanity, aimed for the common good. In others, people should get what they need and give what they can, and luxury is more than they need and reduces what they can give.

    Most communisms are friendly to space exploration, I agree, though.

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    • theneverfox@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Luxury space communism is what they have in Star Trek.

      You can make anything with no human labor, so why shouldn’t everyone have access to whatever luxuries they want? Obviously there are practical limits for the common good, like everyone can’t have a yacht, there’s not room and it’d destroy the oceans. But everyone could share a fleet of yachts

      Instead, people work for social status, and because humans just like working

      What I’m referring to is what if we mastered automation and shared the fruits of robotic labor freely? When machines can build and maintain themselves outside of the gravity well with no human involvement, we’d have an exponentially scaling pool of workers and basically infinite raw materials

      Then we’d be free to do the jobs we want to do, not what has to be done or what has a high work to reward ratio

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      • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        Then we’d be free to do the jobs we want to do, not what has to be done or what has a high work to reward ratio

        Then the question arises if we are capable of choosing jobs good for us.

        Choosing a good book over Lemmy. Choosing life over dreams. Choosing sport over narcotics.

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    • demonsword@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      No kind of communism I know aimed for luxury even in theory

      Why waste effort and resources on superfluous things when most of humanity barely make ends meet, and a sizable part yet go hungry/dies of preventable diseases?

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      • vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        I said theory. Theory may, like Star Trek, assume no scarcity of resources. Still even in that setting no kind of communism aimed for luxury ideologically.

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