There is a side of the Stalinist/Maoist strain of communism that would happily go for "Work makes you free" as a slogan if someone else hadn't claimed it first.
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@Tallish_Tom I think that a "good economy" usually aligns with "free s--t" (something I once verified informally with an LSE trained colleague of mine). More politely, economic output wildly in excess of labour input. Your work certainly can make somebody free.
In 🇨🇦 that "free s--t" was, historically, things like abundant trees, silver mines so rich you could peel it off the mine wall, vast tracts of unoccupied (by various means) agricultural land and so forth.
Automation by machines is such a wonderful source of "free s--t"... I suspect the solution is, ultimately, to localize the abundance through less centralized manufacturing. I have to learn more about the Spanish/Basque industrial co-op Mondragon, there seems to be a workable model there.
You might get to localish with good. Circular economy rules and looking for more abundant and globally available raw materials.
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@Tallish_Tom Raw materials are everywhere, we just have to shake them out of the dead devices in our landfill, for which there are ways.
In my city, we have entire golf courses sitting on top of huge mounds of recoverable resources.
I agree, we should be in line for a low emission, low labour world of abundance where people live with their needs met, the environment is recovering and people have copious leisure time.
Odds, anyone?
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