Someone asked me to comment on this video. So I did. And then, having written all those words, I figured I might as well throw them up here as well in case I need to refer back to them (since Facebook is a terrible archive). I've run into Zeitgeist before, and I love their idealism and ideas. But I think as a society we're already meeting most human needs. No one starves to death in America, and the vast majority of sustained homelessness is not due to lack of shelter but rather for mental health reasons. While they've got a neat model for post-scarcity economies, they don't say how we can get there. We're already halfway to post-scarcity, and powerful corporate entities are gobbling up all the gains society has produced, leaving the rest of us no better off.
How to get There from Here?
How to get There from Here?
How to get There from Here?
Someone asked me to comment on this video. So I did. And then, having written all those words, I figured I might as well throw them up here as well in case I need to refer back to them (since Facebook is a terrible archive). I've run into Zeitgeist before, and I love their idealism and ideas. But I think as a society we're already meeting most human needs. No one starves to death in America, and the vast majority of sustained homelessness is not due to lack of shelter but rather for mental health reasons. While they've got a neat model for post-scarcity economies, they don't say how we can get there. We're already halfway to post-scarcity, and powerful corporate entities are gobbling up all the gains society has produced, leaving the rest of us no better off.