 What does it mean that all our desires and all our wants are taken care of? I don't know what I'm going to want There is no base level for my desires and wants What does it mean when people say all their needs are taken care of? What are your needs? I need more stuff every year I need different things in a year. I Need to discover the things that I want and the things that I need. I don't settle The robot are making food of X quality. I want X plus one. I can't remember, but isn't it true that in Star Trek some people had like Space yachts private space yachts. Why not? Can everybody get one is it truly costless There's the raw material costless is a electricity costless But there's no end to human desires humans wants human needs There's no end to the potential of progress to supply those But where does the progress come from if not From somebody's mind somebody coming up with an idea of a new type of soap With a new kind of scent. I don't know new kind of food so We don't just desire To have the standard of living that we have the quality of life that we have We don't just I mean this fully automated luxury communism is set in you know everybody would go on vacation at the lake and everybody would do but What if somebody wants to go to Mars? How are they gonna go to Mars? Well, somebody's gonna have to make massive investments in going to Mars. How? Who? What's incentive how they're gonna get engineers to come and work in their project rather than other projects So the whole conception here is That values are static That values are given and That values are known From the top down There is an authoritarian a robot a computer That knows what you need what you want what you desire what your values are and it provides them to you, but what if my values change and To what extent are my values as meaningful if no effort is required to attain them They just show up. What about the value of work? The value of work not only because it can be enjoyable because it's a challenge because that's where we get our self esteem now theoretically could took your hobby into that, but how do you know you're any good isn't The price system another way in telling you you are successful you are good at what you do You are producing values real values to other people. It's a It rejects where values come from from your mind your your choices Your life it rejects the idea that values are constantly Changing growing becoming more ambitious And it rejects the whole way in which production happens, which is somebody has an idea and Has to muster the resources to make that idea reality Robots don't have ideas Unless they become human and then the human not robots, so they're conscious not robots See, yes, I think we will achieve a date where all of our basic material needs all of our Manual labor Will be achieved easily cheaply dirt cheaply by robots think about this. I Think I did did this exercise before but imagine We could grow the economy at 5% a year for the next 40 years And imagine you own I don't know let's say $10 an hour today. So you're at the bottom, right? You're struggling $10 an hour and assume which I think is justifiable to assume That your wages are tied To the growth rate in our economy Then at $10 an hour in 40 years you would earn in real terms assume the 5% growth is real you would earn 72 I think dollars an hour $10 turns into 72 dollars an hour now with 72 dollars an hour you can live pretty well 72 dollars an hour is a pretty good wage and we're talking about The poorest people in our society making 72 bucks an hour in real terms If that happens There is no poverty if that happens Everybody gets their basic needs taking care of more than their basic needs more than their basic needs, but of course The only way that can happen is if we embrace capitalism the only way that can happen Is if we keep money if we price things if we use the price system if we have free markets Then we get to the point where there are no poor people by any standard and where we Middle-class are all millionaires very young and can do whatever we want including working less if that's what we want to do so it's very quickly You can see that the real solution To attaining this kind of lifestyle where you work a little and you play a lot if that's what you want is Then based capitalism. It's the only way Because indeed if you take all the wealth in the world today and you divide it among all the people on planet earth today It doesn't raise the standard of living that much for very long and You take away the incentive to create much more wealth communism only leads in one direction Communism only leads to more poverty Communism only leads to more destruction Communism only leads even if it's Utopian even if it has no dictator even if it's But it has to have a dick dick is somebody has to put those evil capitalist in jail It only leads to death destruction and starvation. It does not lead to luxury luxury is a feature of only a feature of capitalism there is no such thing Is luxury communism luxury communism is completely unequivocally a contradiction in terms Communism cannot produce luxury It will never produce luxury the robots would break down Nobody will be available to fix them. Nobody will know how to fix them. Nobody would have studied how to fix them Everybody will be doing their thing and civilization will collapse wealth Will collapse until they rediscover capitalism I mean It's not that hard It's not that hard. All right. All right, so um One more point I want to make about this just to link it to something. I've told you about many many times This idea really comes out of Judaism and Christianity This really is the idea of The Garden of Eden It's the Garden of Eden mythology. It's the Garden of Eden That is conditioned people to think in this way or the Garden of Eden is a projection of people's desires The desire to get the unowned The desire to live a life without effort the desire to Just be at the beach do whatever your whims desire without the need To produce the things that are required for your life In the Garden of Eden all food is produced is just there No effort no work is required. No struggle the Garden of Eden Requires nothing a man indeed The Garden of Eden is man as animal is Man with no reason is man with no will is Man with no choices What everybody wants is to reverse the fall of Adam and Eve to return What with these guys one not everybody to return to some garden mythological Garden of Eden Eden where they don't need to use their mind in other words They don't need to be human what they want to do is become animals What they want to do is become beasts of the land with no free will No choice No effort no work numb dead and of course in the Garden of Eden you live forever Boring as life might be and this is a pervasive mythology and Super destructive of course, it's not just the Garden of Eden. It's of course paradise It's of course where you go when you die if you're good It's a world with no work. It's a world with no money It's a world with no effort. It's a world where you sit around doing what? Nothing It's a world where you return to being an animal and it seems like Christianity hit a home run With taking the Garden of Eden and projecting it into the future projecting into the afterlife It's very appealing in Christian mythology. It's very appealing to people and it's You see it circled back you see it recycled if you will by the communists What is the fully automated luxury communism if not? garden of Eden or paradise But a false Garden of Eden and a false paradise Remember that Eve has to bite from the apple of knowledge The apple of knowledge is what gives Adam and Eve human consciousness The apple of knowledge gives Adam and Eve reason free will Choices it makes them human and that is viewed as a fall That is viewed as a bad thing That is viewed as something we need to overcome With communism all right So yeah, it's it's it's also you know something that It's again to link this to kind of a floating platonic wishful thinking People imagine a world that's completely unrealistic and unattainable It goes back to those platonic roots that we've talked about over and over again during these episodes Our job the way to combat this It's to recognize that life is amazing that life is not a burden as Jordan Peterson would tell us but life is Amazing particularly in a modern world embrace Your will embrace your reason embrace your work embrace your life live the antidote to Luxury communism is to say no I Want to work I want to produce and I want to trade with my fellow man. 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