What do you think we should replace it with? Some years back, when my country replaced a corrupt, entrenched coalition govt of 60+ years, the winning party sort of looked around and said: ‘uh… huh, OK, we won. We werent expecting to win. Now what? We have no plan. Lolz?’
In that light, what do you think should replace the big C, and how do we ensure human nature doesnt juat exploit it for a few individuals benefit?
IMO our population is already too high to be sustainable without capitalism grinding people down to survive off their blood and suffering. We would need to heavily automate most of the labour intensive industries like mining and especially farming; however, I don’t think this will happen any time soon, partially in thanks to how the current system maintains the status quo and is very much regressive in that respect. There’s a steep curve to get over to achieve this technologically, and I don’t think we’re that close to implementing it on such a massive scale to be effective.
I know of a few companies that are working on these issues; like one company that uses special suction cups on robotic arms to pick fruit and maybe humanoid robots will become rugged enough for continuous outdoor labour but from what I see and the amount of people working on this issue, I don’t think we’re even close.
We’re trapped in the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine is bleeding to death.
*Especially because AIs are too inaccurate and energy intensive to be useful… it was a good idea but in practice, it’s basically useless.
*Also I don’t believe it’s human nature to exploit other people, just how the current system works I guess. Human nature is picking berries, hunting animals, taking your kid fishing and just chilling with your community. I think your idea about human nature is skewed because very few people are able to experience a healthy community.
Heh. Whats to stop people from indulging in more procreation, if such a level of automation is ever achieved? Or is it that the novelty of sex will wear off and peopoe will devote time to other pursuits, e.g. music/ the arts?
I don’t think most people will suddenly indulge their creative side, more likely they’ll just behave much as they would if they had a day off, at least for the first year or so (video games, pizza, alcohol, etc.). After that, who knows. Kind of like someone’s just retired, except for the whole population at relatively the same time… like no idea what would happen there lol. Definitely a societal shift at a massive scale.
I’m quite certain about one thing though: we’ll get a hell of a lot more dank memes.
Probably a lot of crime would occur is my guess.