My main issue with this post is that it seems substantially concerned with losing the ability for humans to achieve significant levels of wealth and power relative to each other, which I agree is important for avoiding a calcified ruling class (which tends to go poorly for a society, historically). But it should be viewed as a transitional concern as we look towards building a society where radical wealth disparities (critically, here defined as the power of the wealthy to effectively incentivize the less wealthy to endure unwanted experiences or circumstances, e.g., long work weeks, poorer nutrition or education, long commutes) don’t exist.
Human ambition isn’t worth human poverty except exactly to the degree that it may be necessary to eliminate suffering.
My main issue with this post is that it seems substantially concerned with losing the ability for humans to achieve significant levels of wealth and power relative to each other, which I agree is important for avoiding a calcified ruling class (which tends to go poorly for a society, historically). But it should be viewed as a transitional concern as we look towards building a society where radical wealth disparities (critically, here defined as the power of the wealthy to effectively incentivize the less wealthy to endure unwanted experiences or circumstances, e.g., long work weeks, poorer nutrition or education, long commutes) don’t exist.
Human ambition isn’t worth human poverty except exactly to the degree that it may be necessary to eliminate suffering.