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Fully Automated Luxury Communism
Fully Automated Luxury Communism | Aaron Bastani
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A different kind of politics for a new kind of society--beyond work, scarcity and capitalism In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury and happiness—for everyone. Technological advance will reduce the value of commodities—food, healthcare and housing—towards zero. Improvements in renewable energies will make fossil fuels a thing of the past. Asteroids will be mined for essential minerals. Genetic editing and synthetic biology will prolong life, virtually eliminate disease and provide meat without animals. New horizons beckon. In Fully Automated Luxury Communism, Aaron Bastani conjures a vision of extraordinary hope, showing how we move to energy abundance, feed a world of 9 billion, overcome work, transcend the limits of biology, and establish meaningful freedom for everyone. Rather than a final destination, such a society merely heralds the real beginning of history.
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khooliha
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Fully Automated Luxury Communism | Aaron Bastani
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I don't think I'm going to rate this one, as I am finally getting into the Verso books and thus blundering myself through a leftist education, which leaves me imagining that I will feel differently about this book the more I learn. Trying to build a tool kit to a just world, just gotta keep looking and learning and trying and dreaming of and for that better world.

khooliha I want to do some reading that isn't so tech focused, as I do not trust the implementation of a lot of tech. But also, I acknowledge that I may be wrong to feel that way! 4y
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Honestly, one of the things I am learning is that I have an even harder time than I thought holding hope in my heart and brain. I know hope is necessary, I know hopelessness is what the people in power want from us, but knowing that the existential dread of my life (climate change, specifically) has only gotten worse, well... nothing makes me long for personal oblivion quite like it. Gonna have to keep reading these books until I find what I need.

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khooliha
khooliha
Fully Automated Luxury Communism | Aaron Bastani

I think it's a little wild that (at least so far) the author is treating tech like it is formed in/exists in a vacuum. Algorithms are often racist for being built in a white supremacist society. The dog robot is going to be a cop now. Please think more fully about how these things currently exist!
(Disclaimer: I don't know shit about shit)

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Fully Automated Luxury Communism | Aaron Bastani

Just hit a paragraph about the rise of global communication networks and BOY I miss Spaceship Earth

khooliha (No, I shan't stop shitposting about the serious nonfiction) 4y
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