Fully automated gay space luxury communism

Leftists too often ignore the psyche’s need to have a vision in mind of something to look forward to. In a fascinating article for Dissent, Alyssa Battistoni carefully weighs the pros and cons of UBI in the current political moment, concluding that pushing for UBI right now is probably a bad idea for the left.

On the one hand, there’s nothing terribly unusual about the left’s interest in aggressive redistribution.

In Lewis’s fantasy, the vastness of space is full. Those results jibed with a handful of other studies, which estimated that roughly half of all human employment is vulnerable to robotic usurpation in the next few decades. This will redound to the benefit of emancipated labor, and is the condition of its emancipation.” Capitalism, the system anchored in the exploitation of human labor, would inadvertently abolish the fount of its own value.

The show, she said, was one of the most socially revolutionary programs on TV. Of the writers of Star Trek, she said:

“When they think of a society that is intellectually, technologically and ethically advanced—a just society—no one goes hungry in that society, no one goes sick or homeless from lack of resources.

On a more concrete level, UBI is attractive to left sensibilities because it can reduce the brutal financial insecurity that warps human life in capitalism. Recent films focus on the dull, miserable, and nightmarish aspects of an astronaut’s life. But on the bright side, the antidote to such failure is emerging, namely in the form of renewed interest in bona fide socialism.

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Space utopias are the opposite of the neoliberal austerity economy. Then the next one, then the next. He had theological reasons for framing the galaxy in the language of poetry. He had thought it barren: he saw now that it was the womb of worlds, whose blazing and innumerable offspring looked down nightly even upon the earth with so many eyes—and here, with how many more!

As a result, she could yadda-yadda-yadda the economics of utopia: “We are talking about the obsolescence of labor itself through cybernation, the radical re-structuring of the economy to make work, i.e. In February of 2016, President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisors concluded that there was an 83% chance of robotic automation replacing jobs that pay less than $20 per hour.

This same frictionless space travel can be found in utopian science fiction, the most notable and mainstream of which is the Star Trek franchise. Space exploration, we are told, is a miserable job that someone must do. So, Bruenig reasons, since the rich pretty much already have a UBI, why not have the federal government do the same thing for everyone else?