sister_sam

Lunarpunk vs SolarPunk. Very worth thinking upon.

The world of AI, robots, automation is very two-faced. On one hand there is all the excitement about purported hyper-abundance just around the corner and life of plenty for all. OTOH we act as our evolved psychology leads us to that Scarcity is the base reality. So if each individual doesn't scratch just the right itch that won't be replaced overnight then so sad, too bad for them. On the one hand the big beautiful dream and on the other hand complete uncaring can't afford to care because there is not enough, never enough and well it is too bad. This is a very explosive juxtaposition. It is a deep problem how humans overcome their evolved deep expectation of scarcity and do it fast enough. Otherwise we go out of our way to create scarcity even where there is abundance either fully present or easily in reach.