• Study finds belief in free market economics predicts rejection of science
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[QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;40381940] survivalists aren't an economic school either (well they seem not to have heard of comparative advantage but w/e), but if you look at transhumanists, a [I]lot[/I] of them are rightwing libertarians.[/QUOTE]Not the ones I've interacted, and not myself personally. Most of us are quite liberal and some form of Socialist. I'm sure there are there are some who are conservative and libertarian, but I have encountered very few of them.
automating the means of production is the only way we will ever reach true 'class equality'
[QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;40391096]Not the ones I've interacted, and not myself personally. Most of us are quite liberal and some form of Socialist. I'm sure there are there are some who are conservative and libertarian, but I have encountered very few of them.[/QUOTE] The high profile, highly intelligent ones that actually generate new ideas and funding for said ideas about transhumanism tend to be libertarian though. [editline]23rd April 2013[/editline] eh maybe we're just reading different blogs
[QUOTE=Sobotnik;40390607]Then obviously we will have intelligent workers and machinery doing a lot of work.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=DainBramageStudios;40390880]robots do all the work while we chillax in our volcano lairs with our genetically engineered catgirls and catboys (everyone is bi in the future)[/QUOTE] that's assuming we already have the technology for automation, in which case we would probably be switching to a "venus-project" style resource-based economy since there will be little need to work. since you guys like to interrogate me about feasibility of my ideas, how about you tell me how feasible it is to elevate the chinese/latin american/african/southeast asian worker who makes cheap shit for us. how likely is it that a capitalist, free market system would be able to allow for these workers to eventually become "emancipated" when western economies depend on them?
[QUOTE=yawmwen;40393633]that's assuming we already have the technology for automation, in which case we would probably be switching to a "venus-project" style resource-based economy since there will be little need to work. since you guys like to interrogate me about feasibility of my ideas, how about you tell me how feasible it is to elevate the chinese/latin american/african/southeast asian worker who makes cheap shit for us. how likely is it that a capitalist, free market system would be able to allow for these workers to eventually become "emancipated" when western economies depend on them?[/QUOTE] Pretty likely. Remember that China + India have seen a lot of people lifted out of poverty in the past few decades, mostly due to industrialization. I'm pretty sure that with them becoming more cosmopolitan and access to improved education and opportunities, that the grandchild of the farmer will have vastly improved prospects. China and India is pretty much undergoing now what the Japanese did in the late 19th century, the USA in the mid 19th, and the British in the early 19th. Some industries started to decline and move abroad within decades of reaching their peak (British textiles moving to India during the 20th century is a prime example of this). In fact they are already considerably more emancipated now, given that they have higher wages and more opportunity in the cities than in the countryside, where they had been mired in rural poverty for several centuries.
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