If you, like me, don't like the idea of your standard of living dropping to that of even just the mean human being on earth, I find it extremely painful to watch people justifying their way around not trying absolutely anything to raise everyone to at least our current level. Increasing productivity is demonstrably such a way, while many other experiments are so far just that: Experiments + wishful thinking.
If that merely means realigning/cutting current jobs (a process, that is ongoing from the start of human civilization itself, which brought us prosperity and why the fuck would it stop now) to me it's a moral obligation to deal with that at some other level.
There is tons to do here, certainly including how we will do redistribution better, and quickly, etc. Let's get to it.
And do what exactly? Subscribe for corporate AI brain implants? How does that solve inequality?
Also, thinking that you can bring low standards of living up to be on par with high in the current political landscape is a bit like that early Soviet space era promise about blooming apple trees on Mars.
It is guaranteed that they can only become equal by lowering the high.
For simplicity's sake, say you live on a world with exactly one other person. Between you both, 100% of all resources are allocated, but the other person has 100x the resources you do. Please explain how you would achieve equality by raising your resource level to match the other guy's. Technology enabling exploiting of new resources is not really an answer to the question, since developing that technology requires use of current resources, which means 100x the technology is available to the other guy.
If you, like me, don't like the idea of your standard of living dropping to that of even just the mean human being on earth, I find it extremely painful to watch people justifying their way around not trying absolutely anything to raise everyone to at least our current level. Increasing productivity is demonstrably such a way, while many other experiments are so far just that: Experiments + wishful thinking.
If that merely means realigning/cutting current jobs (a process, that is ongoing from the start of human civilization itself, which brought us prosperity and why the fuck would it stop now) to me it's a moral obligation to deal with that at some other level.
There is tons to do here, certainly including how we will do redistribution better, and quickly, etc. Let's get to it.