If we can anticipate what the morality of the future would be, should we try to live by it now?
The question is, can we? Does anyone happen to have any empirical data about how good, for example, Greco-Romans were at predicting the moral views of the Middle Ages?
Additionally, is merely sounding “like the kind of lunatic notion that’ll be considered a basic human right in about a century” really a strong enough justification for us to radically alter our political and economic systems? If I had to guess, I’d predict that Kreider already believes divorcing income from work to be a good idea, for reasons that may or may not be rational, and is merely appealing to futurism to justify his bottom line.
The question is, can we? Does anyone happen to have any empirical data about how good, for example, Greco-Romans were at predicting the moral views of the Middle Ages?
Additionally, is merely sounding “like the kind of lunatic notion that’ll be considered a basic human right in about a century” really a strong enough justification for us to radically alter our political and economic systems? If I had to guess, I’d predict that Kreider already believes divorcing income from work to be a good idea, for reasons that may or may not be rational, and is merely appealing to futurism to justify his bottom line.