The Legendary Dragon Alephwyr, named Alephwyr, BA

Let's suppose the sci-fi/technocratic conceit of ancestor simulations is going to come to fruition. Rather than simplifying the administration of social justice, it would seem to me that it makes its application fundamentally impossible in all the cases that actually matter. 1/

In a post scarcity environment, it's trivial to give people -stuff-. So if the problem were just that of giving all the peasants of every age the various things they didn't have in relation to their wealthier and more powerful counterparts, that would be easy enough. 2/

It seems to me the most important things for a person, that contribute the most value and meaning to their existence, are things that couldn't be provided in any way in a post-scarcity environment. And I don't just mean that post-scarcity doesn't help, but that it's anathema 3/

For instance, all of the capable oppressed have been denied not only their productive earnings but their ability to participate in history. The very meaningful achievements of rank, status become nothing in a post-scarcity environment, and all actions in general lose weight 4/

For instance, acts of charity are no longer possible. And indeed any action which demonstrates the kind of meaningful moral differentiation necessary for the demonstration of virtue and character becomes impossible, such as hiring a qualified minority despite bigotry 5/

So it seems to me that the future is fundamentally hell, in this sense. But the objection could also be generalized to the concept of heaven or an afterlife in general. 6/