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RE: Steemit as an Utopy, robots and Luis Borges
Always nice to see somebody who knows who Borges is. Arguably the 20th century's most important writer.
Automation could be a key to ending mundane and useless jobs. Instead it will be a way to remove 'excess' from the economy. Proletarians left redundant by capitalism will be cast aside.
I imagine scenarios of guarded enclaves of the rich, while the poor are excluded and live on the outskirts. The film Elysium, in this regard, was horrifying in its potential realism.
Automation really is key for the future. But it's about who controls that automation. Tragically, it will be used for capitalist profit and not liberation.
It comes to my mind many films, but mainly some of the scenarios presented by Ray Bradbury. Is amazing that things I use to read as a teenie now are coming into life, and those were written in the 50's. The chapter about VR and AR from Black Mirror on Netflix is also a good one.
Indeed, there will be much more than know left aside, and that is the biggest danger for all, both wealthy and poor. The basis of the current capitalism was people selling their workforce for capital. Now, if you do not even have that to sell, then what else?
I like also antropoligic legends, like Atlantis, Lemur and so. According to those we have already lived in similar worlds, and the solution was to provide everybody with enough resources to survive and develop their hobbies. Jesus, I could talk on this for years, such an interesting subject.
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