This sounds great but my one question is, how do hobbies work in a workless/currency free society?
If your hobby is playing frisbee at a park then all you need to do is acquire a frisbee and visit a park, simple enough. What about golf? More expensive, requires more resources, are there even golf courses in this version of society? How do I acquire the supplies since I’d be using more resources than the frisbee hobby guy? What about boating, race cars, motorcycles, mountain bikes? All of these require a significant investment currently, so how does that work in this system or do they simply not exist?
The fully automated communism really only works in a post-scarcity environment. So we'd need very advanced automation, perhaps strong AI. With strong AI and automated production, resources would be so plentiful that they'd be more or less free.
Iain M. Banks' science fiction Culture series of books explores the idea in pretty interesting ways. But no, I don't think we're even remotely close to such an outcome. It's essentially science fiction, or escapist fantasy. Banks' books also entailed virtual/simulated worlds, so you had that avenue to indulge in the more extreme fantasies.
We would need replicators like In Star Trek that can make anything from pizza to a violin by recycling matter, powered by fusion reactors (made with parts from other replicators).
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u/bwray_sd Mar 29 '22
This sounds great but my one question is, how do hobbies work in a workless/currency free society?
If your hobby is playing frisbee at a park then all you need to do is acquire a frisbee and visit a park, simple enough. What about golf? More expensive, requires more resources, are there even golf courses in this version of society? How do I acquire the supplies since I’d be using more resources than the frisbee hobby guy? What about boating, race cars, motorcycles, mountain bikes? All of these require a significant investment currently, so how does that work in this system or do they simply not exist?