The third option is.....labor automation!

Walk with me on this....

Humans have been exploiting and oppressing each other since before recorded history. And this has been true in very capitalist economies as well as very communist ones. It's basically a universal truth. Furthermore, it was way, way worse in the past.

What changed? Has humanity become more moral in the past few thousand years. I find that very, very unlikely and not well supported by evidence. But tech level has changed tremendously in the past few thousand years, creating more luxury for more people than ever before in history.

So, I contend that there is no sweet spot of an economic or legal model that will resolve the problems faced by capitalist and socialist societies. Humans will just keep on humaning. But more breakthroughs in labor automation have the potential to be significant game changers. Once people can have the things they need in abundance without having force others to labor to produce it, the incentives, targets, and dynamics all change.

Of course, all the human evils will still be there, but just as we have seen a huge reduction in slavery during the rise of labor-saving technology, it is at least possible that we will continue to see a reduction in "slavery" (or wage-slavery or lesser forms of oppression) as we automate more and more of our labor.

I would roll AI into the labor-automation category as well. It's all driven by corporate greed of course but that doesn't mean that absolutely no good will come of it.

Wow, I had no idea you were dumb enough to fall for the Red Scare.

It's quite amusing that some troll follows me around modding down any comments where I suggest humans should cooperate with one another. They are literally proving my point by moving things backwards with their solitary cowardice.

That it's a competitive system is the problem. The world advances through cooperation.

You seem to have forgotten we have read your comments.

Good. Fuck off and don't come back, hypocrite.

I see that you are ignorant of the USA's entire history in Central and South America. This is my surprised face.

Hahahahaha you think nationalists care about people other than themselves hahahhahahahahhahaha

You mean unlike a congressional parasite, or a PPP parasite, or a CEO parasite?

Use preview.

No, every day now.

More people fail every day.

Unsustainable means it fails eventually, not on a specific day.

"the proper solution is obviously to have a formal, controlled, actually viable work visa system for economic migrants"

Yes, we should definitely formalize and legalize our tampering with other countries to produce cheap labor we can abuse.

Wait, what?

Don't be mad because you didn't see it.

Also, don't call them "editors"

And their hair is amazing.

I'm not saying that they can't do it, it's that they can't legally do it.

Ugh. Acrobat actually craps itself on forms now. The check boxes keep disappearing during scrolling, and I have the latest reader.