Open ajschumacher opened 4 years ago
worldwide stats:
Amber Cazzell points https://twitter.com/ambercazzell/status/1323678197641211904 to part 2: https://medium.com/hackernoon/universal-basic-income-the-value-of-post-scarcity-pt-2-5739b58a2ec5
something about "freeism" in the links from that...
Mark Fenner recommends Jon Malesic, who writes on things like Is your job necessary?
possible relation to Maslow/McGregor: hierarchy of needs, Theory X/Y/Z of worker motivation...
also possibly: Eloi/Morlocks as in The Time Machine...
also: addictions? (drugs, alcohol, etc... China just restricted video games more than ever before, etc...)
academics through history, independently and with universities
connection to 10x idea: many people don't do useful work now
US mean household income was 72k: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States#Mean_household_income
necessary step: health insurance
big question: how would people be? would they do well in such a setting?
some (slightly) concrete recs, and a book ref: https://jmkorhonen.net/2018/03/12/practical-policies-for-transition-towards-post-capitalist-post-scarcity-society/
https://medium.com/@dmasley/running-towards-a-post-scarcity-economy-3d03aa27682f
https://hackernoon.com/what-post-scarcity-means-7c4d653418f4
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4225503 Keynes on Post-Scarcity Society
dumb article pointing out that you can't really get rid of scarcity per se: https://mises.org/library/star-trek-wrong-there-will-always-be-scarcity