I of course like Star Trek but their take on post scarcity can't be taken seriously.

#postscarcity

https://tribunemag.co.uk/2023/08/the-radical-politics-of-star-trek

"Elinor Ostrom’s rules for governing the commons provide criteria for how a common sector can function well (Ostrom 2021). Even though her politics differ in crucial ways from libertarian communism, many of the overall principles and practices for managing the commons that she outlines can strengthen libertarian communist praxis (Libertarian 2013). And although not stated until now, the above approach of libertarian communism satisfies Elinor Ostrom’s 8 rules for governing the commons: It has clear and non-hierarchical processes/practices/nomos/decision making, planning, and rules, it matches rules governing commons to local conditions (while also retaining specific universalist features), it ensures that those affected by decisions can modify them, it aims towards the commons being respected by others (through a focus on global revolution as well as defending the commons against hierarchical forces), it develops ways for people to hold each other accountable to rules of the commons without resorting to hierarchical strata and without hierarchical security forces, it has ways of dealing with rule violations as well as accessible dispute resolution (via free association/disassociation, self defense and defense of others, breaking up fights, diffuse social disapproval, and dispute resolution via mediation), and has responsibility for governing common resources in nested tiers from lowest level up to the entire interconnected system. "

https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2022/02/01/the-conquest-of-sandwiches/

#anarchism #anarchy #libertariansocialism #libertariancommunism #socialism #communism #communalism #utopia #federalism #confederalism #federation #confederation #postscarcity #abundance #mutualaid #intercommunalism #commons

Communist production, reproduction, economic decision making, and implementation could technically be done through multiple kinds of ways of arranging socialized production (socialized production as in means of production held in common and governed by self-managed collectives of some kind). Communalism ought to be the complimentary political economic form of communism. Communalism is for communalized economics and means of production and not just socialized production. Communalism properly distributes means of production according to needs of communities and persons without putting policy making power in regards to communal economics in the hands of relatively privatized sources of power. Communalization is a way of gathering all who need, use, and contribute to the commons to govern the commons at multiple scales. Such communalized economics can only be communal if managed directly by horizontal communal assemblies and networks thereof. Such community assemblies and federations thereof would have constitutions, bylaws, shared processes, practices, and goals in harmony with the following qualities: direct democracy, non-hierarchy, free association (participatory activity of each and all), mutual aid, distribution according to needs, and co-federation. Within such a practical framework, decisions about common economics would be made by such communal assemblies deliberating about how to meet aggregate needs. People would deliberate in such assemblies and pool needs, ideas, knowledge, alternative proposals, abilities, volitions/desires of persons, skills, resources, and technology together to make decisions in relation to solving common problems or developing common projects. Participatory, horizontal, and directly democratic decision making processes would exist on a plurality of scales–from communal to intercommunal to broader co-federated scales. Such communal assemblies would have embedded participatory councils and working groups that implement decisions and self-manage within the bounds of the policies made by communal assemblies and members thereof. Such a process harmonizes self interest and social interest, is rooted in cooperative conflict and deliberation for decision making, has a form and a content that guarantees self-management of each and all on every scale to the degree it develops, has maximal political transparency, allows for decision making and coordination on a plurality of different scales, allows for function redundancy, etc. and is not internally limited by the profit motive or positions that give people power over others (and what is entailed by the maintenance of such power over others). Additionally, such an approach does not put the economy at war against itself by pitting different relatively private sectors against others.

https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2022/02/01/the-conquest-of-sandwiches/

#anarchism #anarchy #libertariansocialism #libertariancommunism #socialism #communism #communalism #utopia #federalism #confederalism #federation #confederation #postscarcity #abundance #mutualaid #intercommunalism #commons

Was going through older notes this morning and found this nice nugget.
#postscarcity #utopia #capitalism #futurism #scifi #sciencefiction

My film, #TheOriginalCopy, is a #futurist tale about tech that uproots capitalism. I don't specify if the tumult that follows signals imminent societal collapse, or the birth pangs of a post-scarcity utopia. In any case, these are ideas I always have fun thinking about. I've spent many years building out a future history in my mind, and this #shortfilm will be my first public expression of it.
#postscarcity #utopia #capitalism #futurism

#AI is going to make food production free and usher in an era of #postscarcity. I'm sure that will work. It will be fine.

#nosarcasm

https://medium.com/@kyeg/post-scarcity-and-food-production-cultivating-abundance-and-ending-hunger-5cdd954715c1

A Future Without Work

https://antoniomelonio.substack.com/p/a-future-without-work

Fully Automated Luxury Communism (FALC) could free us from the capitalist shackles of useless toil.

#FLAC #PostScarcity #NoCoercedLabor #automation

"Despite various benefits that localization can have, there are many contexts where considerations come into play that make intercommunal and confederated economic decision making and planning into something that makes more sense for multiple reasons such as: 1. That which affects multiple communities should be decided by multiple communities as various decisions are not just about a single block, neighborhood, town, or city 2. To pool needs/abilities/volunteers/resources/technology/ideas/proposals together to solve problems and develop projects on multiple scales 3. To provide for needs and desires when local scales are not absolutely self-sufficient (which they rarely are) 4. To reduce overall labor/work through mutual support and assistance on an intercommunal scale. 5. As an extension of choice and freedom of intercommunal associations to undertake joint projects. 6. To uphold responsibility and commitment towards other communities and towards forging the right kind of interdependence between communities 7. to enable intercommunal provision of the means of production when needed/desired. The above are examples of reasons why intercommunal decision making and planning can make sense in various contexts for various functions compared to mere localized approaches. Decentralized and Co-federated planning and economics enable the benefits of non-local scales without the cons of centralized power over and above self-managed collectives. And such co-federation is a desideratum beyond mere necessity as the right kind of decentralization is not about absolute self-sufficiency but the right kinds of self-governance and self-sufficiency in tandem with radically egalitarian ways of organizing interdependence. Such a mutually interrelated and multitudinous political economy enables people to associate in various communal associations, embedded councils, working groups, and varied social groups that fit their dynamic preferences– enabling a radical differentiation and pluralism in harmony with non-hierarchical freedoms and duties."

https://usufructcollective.wordpress.com/2022/02/01/the-conquest-of-sandwiches/

#anarchism #anarchy #libertariansocialism #libertariancommunism #socialism #communism #communalism #utopia #federalism #confederalism #federation #confederation #postscarcity #abundance #mutualaid #intercommunalism

#AI can go to one of two extremes:

1) AI helps us move to a #postscarcity society, solves #globalwarming and we can stop working while enjoying safe, #happy lives.

2) AI decides we're a threat and uses a combination of AI run weaponry and turning off energy, water & other utilities to wipe out #humanity. Leading to our #extinction.

Sadly the second option is probably the more likely.

But hey! On the #bright_side: at least we'll be able to create pretty images using prompts for a while... 😂

You can get Orun in print several places, but it looks like it’s on sale here:

https://www.miniaturemarket.com/tegnap1001.html

Or of course digitally from:

https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/350467/ORUN-PostApotheosis-Space-Opera-RPG

#TTRPG #Orun #SciFi #SciFiRpg #IndieRpg #StoryGames #AfroPunk #BLM #PostScarcity #SpaceOpera

I started to collect thoughts and links to articles about #post-scarcity here: https://postscarcity.io/ #postscarcity

“The answer is not to stop the development of #technology. In many cases, the answer to a problem of #inequality is to bolster those who are not getting access … not to bring down those who are getting too much of a thing.”
-Tony Dreher :anfem_star:

🔗 https://youtu.be/eFmMgYR72Cg

@LucyStag #anarchism #transhumanism #postscarcity #postcapitalism #socialism #mutualism

I wrote an article about the potential of AGI could change everything we know about work and scarcity, and how OpenAI's recent blog post seems to miss that point. Rather than 'adapting economies', post-scarcity can prepare us for the changes ahead. #AGI #postscarcity #medium #AI #OpenAI
https://medium.com/@swilson4995/ai-ubi-post-scarcity-preparing-for-agi-6c26995bf48b

Atomic Heart. An alternate reality where the USSR evolved into a #postscarcity utopian society, with the majority of the population's needs being easily satisfied by an army of robotic slaves.
https://gamefragger.com/pc/action/atomic-heart-live-action-trailer-shows-jensen-ackles-getting-mean-with-machines-a24611#gs.qevxd1

I know I am not nearly the first person to say this (nor is it my first time) but:

💻📚 e-books should not have borrow limits for public libraries! 📚💻

The whole advantage of e-books is having no physical limitations (besides digital storage) and being infinitely distributable. But also public libraries should be able to distribute them to card-holders infinitely.

No manufactured scarcity.

#publiclibraries #postscarcity #endDRM #endcopyright

Our essay "The Conquest of Sandwiches" is now on our Subtack page

"Communist decision making would start with finding out the general needs and economic desires of people and then move into how such needs and desires can be met through self-managed arrangements (Crump 2014). Materials, means of production, technology, and overall societal labor/work needed to meet aggregate needs under specific conditions can be calculated to inform decision making and implementation. Deliberation and relevant economic information would inform horizontalist assemblies to change and tweak plans as needed and as relevant changes happen. Such economic calculation can be assisted by computers and cybernation, but even when that happens all policy making power would be in hands of people directly. Dialogue augmented by cybernated systems can give people relevant information for economic decision making. Surveys, numbers from last year’s production, resources available within ecological regeneration rates, new technology, what people want to do, new needs, new desires, new luxuries, and new ecological factors (and more) can assist the iterative planning done by communal and intercommunal assemblies. It is important to note that even though such overall societal economic calculation can help assist with self-management of communal economics, communism “consists in consuming and producing without calculating the exact share of each individual” (Kropotkin 1901). Under contexts of scarcity or disaster–such as the revolutionary development of communism out of terrible conditions– there would be priority production and distribution schemas where needs take priority over relative luxuries. As such communist institutions and content develop, mutually equitable access to luxuries would be integrated as needs of all or otherwise things people have access to. Such a communist economy would ideally develop into a full post scarcity economy (which would still retain the necessary features of communism, but also be a “higher phase” thereof). Despite lack of actuation, there has been a technical potential for a global post-scarcity economy for decades (Bookchin 2004).

Once overall needs are aggregated, communal assemblies, federations thereof, and embedded councils would devise plans to meet such needs and desires. There would be back and forth dialogue within and between assemblies of communal and intercomunal associations until common plans and policies are arrived at (which would continually get updated by participatory planning processes). Ideally, general and relevant propositional and practical knowledge would be sufficiently generalized among communards. Embedded councils, working groups, or relevant experts within or outside of specific communities can be thoroughly consulted to help round out overall knowledge communards have so they can make more informed decisions. After deliberation, political economic policy making power would be retained within horizontalist and participatory communal assemblies with an aim towards full agreement with a fall back to majority votes within free association of persons– in harmony with the minimal norms, rights, and duties of libertarian socialist practices (Bookchin 2007). Implementation of policies would be self-managed by those who agree to implement such policies (Kropotkin 1892). Embedded councils and rotating delegates of communal assemblies would be mandated by and instantly recallable to the assemblies that they are a part of."

https://usufructcollective.substack.com/p/the-conquest-of-sandwiches

#anarchism #anarchy #communalism #communism #socialism #postscarcity #utopia #kropotkin #anarchocommunism #libertariansocialism #libertariancommunism #commons

@Kauz Replicators came from Vulcan? Cool, I didn't know that! I agree with your point. A while ago I read Trekonomics, and the author stated that replicators should probably come before warp drive (morally, but also logically - as a #postscarcity society should be more capable of sophisticated technological development) #solarpunk

I love this! We should be repairing everything and I’m glad to see a group in Philly helping people to do just that!

Don’t throw away that broken item. A coalition of Philly volunteers will help you fix it https://whyy.org/articles/philly-fixers-guild-repair-fairs/
#righttorepair #repaireverything #sustainability #solarpunk #philadelphia #postscarcity

I just rediscovered the Institute for Open Source Ecology, and my #solarpunk senses are tingling! OSE is currently developing a set of open source blueprints for the Global Village Construction Set (GVCS) – a set of the 50 most important machines that it takes for modern life to exist – everything from a tractor, to an oven, to a circuit maker. Most of them only cost a fraction of a comparable industry model. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q9BW9E6omFQ #postscarcity #opensource
https://www.opensourceecology.org/

1/ So, I have a question to my fellow #solarpunk s.
Do you think #3DPrint ers and the technology around them have the potential to create a different economic system - with more #decentralization , possibly leading #postscarcity or even #postcapitalism ? I love the idea, but I feel I lack the technological know-how to judge this properly.