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Fully Automated Luxury Communism
- Author
- Aaron Bastani
- Narrator
- Shaun Grindell
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 25 August 2020
- Run Time
- 7 hours 42 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
- Genre
- Business and Management, Political ideologies and movements, Technology: general issues, Economics of specific sectors, Economic geography, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Politics and government, Political economy, Automatic control engineering
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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.
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Details
- Author
- Aaron Bastani
- Narrator
- Shaun Grindell
- Duration
- 7 hours 42 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 August 2020
- ISBN
- 9781705255261
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Business and Management, Political ideologies and movements, Technology: general issues, Economics of specific sectors, Economic geography, Far-left political ideologies and movements, Left-of-centre democratic ideologies, Politics and government, Political economy, Automatic control engineering
Synopsis
A different kind of politics for a new kind of society—beyond work, scarcity, and capitalismIn 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.
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