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What's your point? Obviously jumping to a post-capitalist state in this thought experiment is lofty, but we're already making a lot of assumptions, lets say "working in order to deserve to live" is already something of the past, my point stands that people will partake in creative endeavors for the sake of creating.

The thesis of the book "Capitalist Realism" states the all encompassing nature of the economic system we live in bars the average person from being able to imagine a world outside that system.

Outside a profit motive, people still create and imagine new ideas. Profit motive in our current tech landscape is 80% innovation in selling ads. Basically a pointless expenditure of resources IMO. All we have is advertisement and war, with a sliver of toys to make our days easier. Outside of a profit-centric environment, there's reason to believe ideas can be explored on their own merit, not on their potential profit.

parent MSFT_Edging 3 years ago

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