As our industrial economic system marches on to larger and larger productiveness and increasingly more automation, the query arises as to what the long run financial position of people might be. Are we headed in direction of an apocalyptic world of Matrix the place robots dominate and people are merely batteries?
The reply is a powerful no. We are headed in direction of the “meaning” economic system. In this economic system folks pay one another for the manufacturing of that means. What does this imply?
In impact folks pays different folks (or organizations) as a result of they do issues that add that means to their lives. instance is music. Current considering argues that music is bought as a result of it’s leisure. But I argue {that a} extra correct view is that music is bought as a result of it produces that means in an individual’s life. Similar examples will be utilized to books, or motion pictures, schooling, and even going to a therapist.
But what’s that means?
In impact that means is what allows folks to do two issues:
1. Live within the phenomenal world. By this I imply mediating feelings, coping, coming to phrases with, accepting, and no matter it takes to interface with a world that always is opposite to our human sensibility.
2. Grow in consciousness. This previously was often known as turning into religious, however on this new rational scientific age, the time period spirituality is so muddied with dogma and superstition, that consciousness carries extra significance.
Of course, there’ll all the time be some a part of the economic system engaged in producing the fabric good essential to bodily reside. But this a part of the economic system has constantly shrunk over the previous couple of hundred years.
Some can even argue that with the upcoming demise of the oil economic system we’ll revert again to the previous methods of much less automation. Perhaps we’ll to some extent, particularly in the case of rising meals. But this can’t maintain true for as we invent new applied sciences to harness the facility of the solar, we’re prone to enhance automation not lower it, despite the fact that we would undergo momentary reversions infrequently.
In the long run, as productiveness grows, and we discover ways to curb greed, and regulate the extreme focus of wealth, people will discover extra free time on their fingers, and assuming that the human soul aspires to be helpful, we’ll discover methods of buying that means, and in flip producing that means for others: in impact, the final word service economic system.
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