It seems like, for the last 30 years of my life, we didn’t really need to spend much time struggling with what to do with the long-term future of humanity. The idea in my head has always been “what folks around me currently have, but for more people, and using less stuff.”

If fusion is ever going to be a thing, if energy production keeps getting cheaper, if AI is contributing significantly to the knowledge economy…that’s just not gonna be enough of a vision anymore.

@hankgreen The time is coming when we must redefine social participation. It will be unreasonable to shame an individual for their lack of gainful employment when there just aren't enough jobs to go around. But on the bright side, we have the opportunity to evolve from a civilization of labor, to a civilization of leisure,. My prototype is the state of Kuwait, where citizens largely rely on foreign workers for most labor. Replace these workers with machines, and we have my Utopia.