The closer you get to leisure class the more ambitions barbellize: trivial, like seeking out the best chips, or save-the-world. Nothing in between.
Does not bode well for postscarcity utopian dreams. They will be unstable.
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All the best things are unstable, like the sun. Stability is death.
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That's trivially true of everything, but in context I obviously mean "more unstable than we expect societies to be"
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Maybe it's just the expectation that's off. Post-scarcity might mean that we can be happy and productive without the controls we currently recognize.
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I think that's one of the themes of Ursula LeGuin's Dispossessed which I haven't read

