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In the twenty-first century, new technologies should liberate us from work. Automation, rather than undermining an economy built on full employment, is instead the path to a world of liberty, luxury and happiness¿for everyone. Technological advance will reduce the value of commodities¿food, healthcare and housing¿towards zero.
Improvements in renewable energies will make fossil fuels a thing of the past. Asteroids will be mined for essential minerals. Genetic editing and synthetic biology will prolong life, virtually eliminate disease and provide meat without animals. New horizons beckon.
In Fully Automated Luxury Communism, Aaron Bastani conjures a vision of extraordinary hope, showing how we move to energy abundance, feed a world of 9 billion, overcome work, transcend the limits of biology, and establish meaningful freedom for everyone. Rather than a final destination, such a society merely heralds the real beginning of history.
Pressestimmen:
¿In 100 years¿ time many of the ideas in this book will be mainstream, while kindergarten students laugh at our mainstream economic textbooks. Bastani¿s genius is to see the future with crisp clarity, unafraid of the consequences of being right.¿
¿Paul Mason, author of Postcapitalism
¿A startlingly sunny and audacious manifesto that reads the extremity of current political, economic, and environmental crises as a sign of the scale of opportunity for radical change ¿ [Bastani] gamely reclaims the stuff of dystopia for a more buoyant vision ¿ Bastani¿s arguments rest on the conviction that the major problems that face citizens are political in nature¿and thus that their only possible solutions will be political, too.¿
¿Lidija Haas, Harper¿s
Aus dem Inhalt:
Introduction: Six Characters in Search of a Future 1
I. Chaos under Heaven
1. The Great Disorder 15
2. The Three Disruptions 31
3. What Is Fully Automated Luxury
Communism? 50
II. New Travellers
4. Füll Automation: Post-Scarcity in Labour 69
5. Limitless Power: Post-Scarcity in Energy 94
6. Mining the Sky: Post-Scarcity in Resources 117
7. Editing Destiny: Age and Post-Scarcity in
Health 138
8. Food without Animals: Post-Scarcity in
Sustenance 159
III. Paradise Found
9. Populär Support: Luxury Populism 185
10. Fundamental Principles: The Break with
Neoliberalism 201
11. Reforging the Capitalist State 224
12. FALC: A New Beginning 237