What I saw on my trip were hundreds of late model giant pickup trucks jacked way up off the ground driving around 90mph with the usual markings. How do the proles afford them? Not yet post-scarcity. Hmm.
From: Friam <friam-boun...@redfish.com> On Behalf Of Roger Critchlow Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2023 9:28 AM To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group <friam@redfish.com> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] The last Lighthouse Keeper in America On Tue, Dec 26, 2023 at 8:51 PM Marcus Daniels <mar...@snoutfarm.com<mailto:mar...@snoutfarm.com>> wrote: [...] Really hoping the machines can take over soon. I just yesterday finished rereading all the Iain M Banks "Culture" novels in the Boston Public Library e-collection, seven between Halloween and Christmas. The "Culture" is a space-going far future civilization of organic life - humanoid and other - and of artificially sentient beings. The machine "Minds" pretty much run the infrastructure and economy while the organic beings party, study, travel, pursue dangerous hobbies, whatever. It's all post-scarcity, so everyone can pretty much have what they want. It sounds like the Culture "Minds" pretty much solved the dictatorship of the proletariat in the Culture's history. You raise dumb matter to sentience and let it sort everything out. The energy and matter of the tools that the proletarians used are even more prole than the proles. -- rec --
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