I guess the conversation I would like to have is, are we ready? Do you think we have had advancements withheld and held back and is the economy more important than the planet? Personally I feel like everything comes back to monetary wealth getting in the way of global happiness. Star Trek really got that right.

  • sabreW4K3@lazysoci.alOP
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    5 months ago

    WTF? You know this is the Internet right? What’s with these high quality posts you keep casually dropping?

    a lower power bill for regular people

    Isn’t that great for the local economy though? In theory. If people resist hoarding and spend, the money accumulated through taxes and can pay for local improvements.

    Profit incentive always does find a way in capitalism. Similar to the scenario of UBI, where without rent control, it is likely that landlords would try to gobble up most of that free money. I’m not sure how much of that type of leeching would happen if people didn’t have to pay their power bills, probably not quite as much as it would be with UBI.

    So really, we need legislation to save normal people from rich people, otherwise just to get rid of monetary wealth.

    the only real solution is eliminating capitalism

    Isn’t it always.

    History has shown us such a thing is possible to achieve. The best example we have is from 1936, during the Spanish Civil War. The anarchists in Catalonia created a society free of money and exploitation. It was as close to Star Trek as humanity has ever come.

    I’m super grateful for this. Thank you and thank you again for such great replies in this post.