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[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

That's nice, but as soon as there isn't enough to go around and it becomes a question of who's going hungry, all of a sudden you start to see how generous and idealistic people really are.

Its a great idea you're talking about but I just can't see how it can co-exist with the essentially human greed and laziness we all have.

[-] chuckleslord@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Take everything we have now. Remove all of the redundant labor we do purely for profit (pointless middlemen, designed obsolescence, needlessly deep hierarchies to maintain hegemony, throwing away goods if they won't generate enough profit). That's more than enough excess labor to build a substantial bulwark for future disaster and allow people the rest they actually need.

Like, it's so hard to convey how much effort we waste allowing the assholes who want to be on the top of the pile to design society. They just make shitty piles so they can stand on top of them. We can accomplish so much more than this.

[-] flambonkscious@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago

I don't disagree with you but i think you're being overly simplistic.

Good luck getting any more than 3 people to agree to anything. This is far worse than the problem of pizza toppings.

Not everyone shares your naivete, so what do you do then? It'd work great if we were robots but we're just a bunch of messy degenerates...

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