| Soundwave said: While I would agree today it can't work, in 200-300 years, who knows. How do you monetize something if everything can be replicated for example? Such a technology would destroy a supply/demand based economic system and that's a technology that theoretically we'll likely eventually get to (3D printers are the first tiny baby steps towards it). How can you have an economic system if no jobs are required? Keep in 200-300 years ago, we didn't even have electricity or working, flushing toilets and the idea of an airplane would be pure science fiction, a device like an iPhone would be completely unfathomable. You'd be likely be strung up and burned alive for having one because they'd think you're (literally) a sorcerer. |
That still doesn't even come close to making communism feasible, especially the classless, stateless pipe dream version of it. Humans will forever divide along lines of culture and identity. We will never solve every problem, so there will always be competing ideologies proposing solutions to those problems. In today's world there are fat, spoiled people who have never known real material want in their entire lives yet who blame everything on capitalism because that's the system they live under and the only thing they know. And because people are never satisfied they'd be doing exactly the same thing in this hypothetical post-scarcity communist utopia. So what to do when people blame communism for their ennui, and a fascist/nationalist/capitalist/whatever comes along to promise to fill that void with a purpose? Should we shut down these dangerous ideas by force? Who has the proper authority to do that in a stateless world? Ultimately you'd just wind up with this mob vs. that mob, and the stronger mob would win and then establish a government to make sure this horrible thing never happened again.
