March 29th

The article “Fully Automated Luxury Communism” in my opinion sounds terrible and just like true pure communism is a Utopian outlook on life. I believe that it would be nice if it were true or possible but the simple law of scarcity says otherwise. Reasources are not limitless nor are the bountifully within reach. To have the kind of living the article proposes you would need faster than light travel so we could reach resources outside our solar system. We would need to have colonized more planets to accommodate the rapid growth factors that would happen if all needs and wants have been or will be met once they arrive. The reason that I feel the type of communism described in the article wouldn’t be enjoyable to me is that it takes a lot of drive out of life. People need push factors if you were to take away any negative feedback or struggle you lose the thrill that is overcoming something. People as a rule don’t generally respect items they haven’t earned. Think back to something your parents always supplied to you in life and how you treated it then, now think of how you treated it when they stopped supplying it for you and you had to work to earn or obtain this item. It meant much more to you when you had worked hard and earned it with your own money. That is value the value you as a person puts on a item its not necessarily bad that people act this way in a general sense but it does create a unique problem. For instance I one used to lose pens and pencils all the time so much so that I would go through a pack of pens about every two weeks, then once I graduated high school and I had to purchase my own supplies I realized how incredibly expensive pens can be when you’re losing them whilly nilly. Therefore, I paid more attention to where I put them because the value and cost had gone way up for me personally.