Reddit reviews Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

Stephen Hawking is on point:


If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed. Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution. So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.

A good read to begin to realize a new alternative:

Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work

Inventing the Future

Postcapitalism This one is not explicitly "socialist", but it's got a lot of good stuff to convince your more moderate friends.

Malign Velocities

#ACCELERATE

I dunno, there are a few. I'm a filthy left accelerationist though. Here is the manifesto, if you're interested

Submission Statement

In essence this article is a book review of Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work by Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams, but delves deeper into the themes discussed in the book. The article talks about the history of neoliberalism and draws some interesting parallels with it as a utopian concept as much as any left wing ideals of the post-war period.


Quite a long read, but insightful. First of a series on the site discussing neoliberalism.

Totaly agree. Maybe you heard about the book called 'inventing the future' it talks about full automation :) https://www.amazon.co.uk/Inventing-Future-Postcapitalism-World-Without/dp/1784780960

I recommend reading Inventing the future. It argues for full automation and universal basic income. If we tax the robots it will discourage automation and productivity increases which will be detrimental to everyone's standard of living. Instead we should encourage automation and the sharing of the gains made by it.

Accelerationism when taken to its logical conclusion certainly eludes categorization along left-right lines, this often leaves people with the impression that it, for whatever reason, relishes in inequality. Such was the case with all of the Yudkowskian right-accelerationists from almost a decade ago; media outlets are just now getting onto the bandwagon in smearing transhumanists as fascists as a result.. justifiably so. Recent left-accelerationist currents, exemplified in the works of Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek fall prey to reterritorializing arguments which leaves us with the urcC's even more recent notions of "unconditional accelerationism" which in many ways takes a closer of look at Landian analysis of capital and tries to bring it forward in a way that's actually conducive towards something substantial. Although as far as I'm concerned, how much it differs from the more radical elements of left-accelerationism remains to be seen.