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As automation theorists of both right and left envisage, the end of scarcity would enable people to enter voluntary associations with others from all over the globe: to join consortia of mathematical researchers, clubs for inventing new musical instruments, or federations for building spaceships. For most people, this would be the first time in their lives that they could enter truly voluntary agreements—without the gun to their heads of a pervasive material insecurity.
Automation and the Future of Work
Aaron Benanav
Once you know what type of person you are and your signature strengths, how do you thrive? This leads to Mukunda’s second piece of advice: pick the right pond. __You’ve got to pick the environments that work for you . . . context is so important. The unfiltered leader who is an amazing success in one situation will be a catastrophic failure in the other, in almost all cases.__
Barking Up the Wrong Tree
Eric Barker
Can a market adequately estimate social and environmental costs? Kapp answered in the negative. Under the fetish of the ‘market’, there are individual agents who are supposed to be able to determine, through their aggregate choices, the fair price of the environmental realities at stake. But structural limits prevented them from doing so satisfactorily.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
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