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 5 days agoLuxury 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.
demonsword@lemmy.world 5 days ago
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 5 days 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.
theneverfox@pawb.social 5 days 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
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 4 days ago
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.
theneverfox@pawb.social 3 days ago
Of course. Because we’re social creatures, that’s our natural state
Most of humanity’s problems exist not because they’re inherent, it’s because for 1000 generations we’ve been building up self-reinforcing social structures that have entered the end stage. Where everything is squeezed for profit and the real value of it is drained away
We like to do things together. We’re wired for it. With unlimited time and resources, why would we not live near and visit our favorite people? Why would we not explore the world around us? Why would we not work to make life nicer? Why would we not reach out to others who fall through the cracks and find themselves isolated?
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 3 days ago
That’s how evolution works, mathematically. What’s more likely to survive and give offspring, survives and gives offspring.
And unless unlimited time and resources become firm reality, that’s how it will work further.
Anyway, that’s so galaxy-scale that I don’t want to think about it.