{"id":23215,"date":"2016-10-13T22:10:56","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T02:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/?p=23215"},"modified":"2016-10-13T22:11:13","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T02:11:13","slug":"four-futures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/10\/13\/four-futures\/","title":{"rendered":"Four Futures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Jacobin Magazine<\/em> has the article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacobinmag.com\/2011\/12\/four-futures\/\" target=\"_blank\">Four Futures<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nA society that has both labor-replacing technology and abundant resources can overcome scarcity in a thoroughgoing way that a society with only the first element cannot. The second question is political: what kind of society will we be? One in which all people are treated as free and equal beings, with an equal right to share in society\u2019s wealth? Or a hierarchical order in which an elite dominates and controls the masses and their access to social resources?<\/p>\n<p>There are therefore four logical combinations of the two oppositions, resource abundance vs. scarcity and egalitarianism vs. hierarchy. To put things in somewhat vulgar-Marxist terms, the first axis dictates the economic base of the post-capitalist future, while the second pertains to the socio-political superstructure. Two possible futures are socialisms (only one of which I will actually call by that name) while the other two are contrasting flavors of barbarism.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is the kind of research, thinking, and discussion that I was looking for in my previous posts <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/10\/13\/gift-economy\/\">Gift Economy<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/2016\/10\/12\/the-most-important-political-question-that-nobody-is-asking\/\">The Most Important Political Question That Nobody is Asking<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacobin Magazine has the article Four Futures. A society that has both labor-replacing technology and abundant resources can overcome scarcity in a thoroughgoing way that a society with only the first element cannot. The second question is political: what kind of society will we be? One in which all people are treated as free and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-stevegsposts","7":"czr-hentry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23215"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23215\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23216,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23215\/revisions\/23216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ssgreenberg.name\/PoliticsBlog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}