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The Promethean Argument for Fully Automated Luxury Comunism
I think one thing they do share is a lack of agency, right? So particularly with the fully automated luxury communism, the whole point of that was it's purely technology. The reason communism couldn't work in the 20th century wasn't because of a political failure. We don't need to investigate all the kind of dig through the ruins of Trotskyism and Maoism and Stalinism. They didn't have the technology,. whereas now with biogenetics, with AI, with all these new technological breakthroughs, we're in a position to do what they were incapable of doing. And I'd suggest or hazard that maybe what the minimalist and the maximalist share is probably a similar skepticism towards
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