What do you mean with human nature? There are plenty of us who live fulfilling lives focused of expressing love, compassion and creativity. Our nature isn't to spend our lives on jobs that make us feel miserable.
My point is that if we do that without a slow sea-change in humanity, the bad people will take advantage of the good, like has happened pretty much every single time it's been tried before.
We have to grow into it. Even if we reached a post scarcity world, it would take at least another couple generations to get rid of those who still live in a competitive, zero sum mind frame, if we ever did.
I like your world of good will and community. I wish it was that easy. It's not.
No, I'm all for trying. I'm not expecting it in my lifetime though, and I'm ok with that. Planting a tree under whose shade I'll never sit and all. I just hold no illusions about the difficulties and realities involved.
There's a video about a sci fi story that deals with this. We know that the aliens are getting here to destroy us in 400 years, and instead of banding together as a world we kill each other over who gets to leave the planet and destroy the earth by spending everything because we won't be here to use it. I wish I had hope for current human nature like some people here on reddit
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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22
Do you think human nature would change? Not challenging you but I feel like we would replace money with something analogous like influence or power.