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RE: An unrewarding success
How do we figure out better what we value and use that to drive us toward our best selves?
This is indeed the issues and we can already see that most people will avoid work (including the things they enjoy) to rather be entertained through consumption activities. The UBI will likely increase this substantially. What do we do when we don't have to do anything? Nothing, by all observation. People want to retire to a tropical island and sip Daquiris and if they can do that at 30, they are successful. The masters of old would be ashamed at how frivolously we live life these days.
Daiquiris, oddly enough, are one of humanity's most-difficult-to-produce inventions. Both sugar cane production and fruit production rely heavily on exploitative labor practices and unsustainable resource use. (At least we're pretty good at ice.)
If we can get the system to the point where it sustainably automates daiquiri production, we'll really be at a point where everyone can sit around drinking them if they really want to. I like a good daiquiri every once in a while but that seems pretty boring.
learn something new every day... I have never had one ;)