02-06-2019, 11:41 PM
(02-06-2019, 10:40 PM)taramarie Wrote:(01-09-2018, 07:59 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:Even if you disagree with someone, no need for that at all. Even though i disagree with a few of you guys on certain topics, including you I would never wish any of you harm nor misery. Not cool Eric. I thought you were an awakened individual?(01-07-2018, 01:22 AM)Galen Wrote:(01-06-2018, 10:08 AM)Kinser79 Wrote: As or haves and have nots they have existed in every society. Liberty necessitates inequality BECAUSE equality is the polar opposite of liberty. As the 20th century has proved, any move toward "equality" at the expense of liberty leads to an equality of the lowest common denominator. Socialism makes everyone equally poor, equally hungry, equally naked and equally ignorant.
Socialists and modern liberals tend to be envy driven lifeforms who would prefer that everyone is equally miserable. That is paradise to someone like Eric (insult redacted).
Oh no, no, not at all. I just want YOU to be miserable! That would be paradise to me.
Some people will be miserable in the world that technological marvels create and with the economic realities that those marvels mandate. We can get incredible productivity with little labor, as with some of the computer-directed production that we will have.
Do we deny such productivity or do we adjust, perhaps by taxing the non-human productivity heavily to ensure that everyone can have a satisfying life?
https://www.wired.com/story/worlds-faste...ai-record/
There won't be enough work to spread around as farm labor. Maybe we practically all do some nominal work just so that we feel honest about what we are doing.
Even such an activity as teaching will change as computers replace the process of teaching in K-12 education.
If all the gain goes to asset owners, then we will be miserable. An economic order that serves only the gain, indulgence, and power of economic elites is the sort in which people want to overthrow and dispossess those elites.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.