The problem is not that we lack resources, but how organize them. If you take the US for example. Inflation adjusted GDP per capita is 4.4 times large today, then it was in 1950. 1950s America was able to meet all basic needs and quite a few luxuries. Not an awful lifestyle materially speaking. The technology we have today would nearly allow everybody in the US to work a day a week and have that lifestyle. Rest would be leisure time.
I understand that this is not “Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism”, but it is post scarcity for all basic needs and actually realistic. The point is more that the issue is not resources, but how we use them. Btw going back to that material consumption with modern technology, would also solve most environmental issues.
And yes globally that is more difficult, but we still have the technology to allow everybody to nearly not work at all, while meeting everybody needs.
The problem is not that we lack resources, but how organize them. If you take the US for example. Inflation adjusted GDP per capita is 4.4 times large today, then it was in 1950. 1950s America was able to meet all basic needs and quite a few luxuries. Not an awful lifestyle materially speaking. The technology we have today would nearly allow everybody in the US to work a day a week and have that lifestyle. Rest would be leisure time.
I understand that this is not “Fully Automated Luxury Gay Space Communism”, but it is post scarcity for all basic needs and actually realistic. The point is more that the issue is not resources, but how we use them. Btw going back to that material consumption with modern technology, would also solve most environmental issues.
And yes globally that is more difficult, but we still have the technology to allow everybody to nearly not work at all, while meeting everybody needs.