I skimmed the story. I didn’t see anything which enforced social equality, though I was quite curious about how not hurting people was interpreted, and how it’s interpreted would make a big difference.
I got the impression the author simply didn’t care about social structures, so he didn’t bother to think about what they’d be like in a utopia of abundance.
I don’t think your hierarchies of self-improvement would most of what’s going on, though they’d exist—I think a lot of the social hierarchy would be about celebrity and emotional skills.
Not hurting people might play out as you fear if the computer system thinks that making sure no one is lonely is more important than not making people spend time with people no one likes.
I skimmed the story. I didn’t see anything which enforced social equality, though I was quite curious about how not hurting people was interpreted, and how it’s interpreted would make a big difference.
I got the impression the author simply didn’t care about social structures, so he didn’t bother to think about what they’d be like in a utopia of abundance.
I don’t think your hierarchies of self-improvement would most of what’s going on, though they’d exist—I think a lot of the social hierarchy would be about celebrity and emotional skills.
Not hurting people might play out as you fear if the computer system thinks that making sure no one is lonely is more important than not making people spend time with people no one likes.