First, the struggle to make sure everyone has enough food, shelter, clothes, etc.
Then we have to get people to do the jobs no-one wants to do. Either we automate them or make the job tolerable. Until then, we might rotate workers in and out of duty, spreading the discomfort.
Then we have to adjust to the increased demand for some resources. Just as plumbing increased the demand for water (but also vastly improved living conditions) so will many other resources follow. Getting it all going while keeping it sustainable will be tricky.
And then, someday, maybe centuries later, post-scarcity communism. And according to the Fourth International–Posadists, this will be a prerequisite before we colonize space, or other worlds.
I think, once we regard greed and power consolidation as a treatable illness, human society can do this. But I don’t yet comprehend a complete path from here to there.
First, the struggle to make sure everyone has enough food, shelter, clothes, etc.
Then we have to get people to do the jobs no-one wants to do. Either we automate them or make the job tolerable. Until then, we might rotate workers in and out of duty, spreading the discomfort.
Then we have to adjust to the increased demand for some resources. Just as plumbing increased the demand for water (but also vastly improved living conditions) so will many other resources follow. Getting it all going while keeping it sustainable will be tricky.
And then, someday, maybe centuries later, post-scarcity communism. And according to the Fourth International–Posadists, this will be a prerequisite before we colonize space, or other worlds.
I think, once we regard greed and power consolidation as a treatable illness, human society can do this. But I don’t yet comprehend a complete path from here to there.