:-) Knock yerself out!

I am truly amazed. Nobody here has the slightest clue what abundance means, and they are so conditioned by the 'elders' to reject the entire concept as impossible, and even undesirable! Fascinating...

Did you know that the first Matrix was designed to be a perfect human world? Where none suffered, where everyone would be happy. It was a disaster. No one would accept the program. Entire crops were lost. Some believed we lacked the programming language to describe your perfect world. But I believe that, as a species, human beings define their reality through suffering and misery. The perfect world was a dream that your primitive cerebrum kept trying to wake up from. Which is why the Matrix was redesigned to this: the peak of your civilization.

If the majority of people on this planet could create a purpose for themselves there wouldn't be religion...

Yeah, and? Sounds like a good thing. They should get to work! And what's wrong with art? If you want to live a sad life, then, by all means... I have other plans

I don't care if you hit a brick wall. if you get rear ended, the guy was too close to begin with. That's what the insurance companies say, and I agree.

There's this thing called "purpose"..

Yeah? then create one for yourself. Take up knitting, if you must, but least leave the past outside with the animals

"nothing left to do"?? My goodness! How 19th century of you... Have you no imagination at all?

I leave that point for the philosophers...

Professional masturbators...

Fine! Effort.. *sheesh*..

Yes, reducing waste is a big part of the deal, and it doesn't reduce the standards of living in any way. At least a half of what we produce now is thrown away, even over there in Africa food is rotting in warehouses. Our problems are strictly managerial. I still maintain that standards of living would be much higher than you believe. Your accounting methods will no longer apply.

Who says anybody needs to 'own' them? Just build a fence to keep the occasional racoon from jamming up the works. The thing is, with machines doing everything, all of our phony economic models completely fall apart. We already know that scarcity is manufactured in great abundance to prop up the otherwise unsustainable system of the concentrated wealth/power we have today. In fact, automation creates 'communism' by default. All needs are met, no effort required. And then, we will fight wars to protect the machines that feed us. So we'd better weaponize them to protect themselves... uh oh!

Sorry, and besides, that ten grand will go a lot farther than it does now, once you quit rationing. Dollar amounts really means nothing. They are arbitrarily made up by the banks. "Supply and demand" is a myth. Gas prices aren't down because of lack of demand. They were set to drive off competition from the alternatives.

Bleh, you're doing just like everyone else. You won't need your damn $10,350 to 'buy' something completely made by a machine from the raw ore. You simply push a button, or speak a command. The machine will ask nothing from you in return. If you're feeling generous, put a drop of oil on its third joint there... ahhh much better... thanks!

Post yer own godless commie journal!

:-) I mean that in the nicest possible way. You do understand?

:-) I never dreamed that in my lifetime I would see the day when people believe that eliminating the need to be a slave to somebody is a bad thing. Is this why we still enjoy 10,000 year old technology and thinking today? We are definitely living in a sadomasochist world. It's the only explanation left after throwing out all the others for being dead-ends.

Why do you need a 'job' if a machine can produce anything you need for nothing? And that includes growing your food and building your house, and maybe even building yourself a little island wherever you want to be at that moment. I thought this would be the goal, to eliminate the the need for you to "run an engine lathe eight unfucking hours a day"..

*sigh*. You all definitely make it very clear why there can be problems with automation. You look through the tiny peephole of your little boxes. You dig two miles deep and declare that's all there is. You utterly fail to see why an 'economy' becomes obsolete with the lack of human effort needed to sustain and prosper. I don't know how to be more obvious, not in a nice way that you would let your children read.

Every animal affects its environment, and that has nothing to do with this, which is a man made environment to begin with. And it is being ruthlessly contaminated by powerful people. Unlike the climate this one is easy to fix.