No, we will not. Because we will still have the religious right and traditional politicians telling us that making money without working is evil and sinful, and the masses who will lose their jobs to robots will be massively screwed by the greed of the mega-rich and their own medieval beliefs. We're in this weird situation where technology has advanced exponentially while most of our population aren't substantially different from what they were 1000 years ago. And since there are plenty of unscrupulous people willing to take advantage of that, and technology hasn't yet figured a way to deal with human greed and lies, things will get ugly.
It never ceases to amaze me how people forget that "human nature" gets in the way of pretty much everything that is good and beneficial, because someone needs to profit massively or they will take their ball and go home. It's not OK to make millions and be happy, today's wealth class needs to make billions and drive the middle-class into the poor house so they can better measure how awesome they are.
I refuse to believe that humans are naturally greedy, it's just that we've created a system where the greedy are rewarded, so success is measured by money. We need to change the system, but as usual in a situation like this, the people who are successful in the current system wield the power, and they don't see why the system should be changed (or want any change) because they've been successful in it. They just say, "look, I could do this, so I'm better than you, stop whining".
This only gets broken by a revolution. The people in power are not going to voluntarily give it up by changing the system. Before money, it was ascendance, religion, etc. In each case it took a massive revolution to change. Unfortunately, things have changed for the better very slowly.
There will never be a revolution. Look at our most recent election. The masses are beyond stupid and gullible, but more importantly they are not hungry. The rich in this country will never allow people to actually get to that tipping point of hunger and despair that drives revolutions. They will just keep that carrot out there and enough people will always think that they actually have a chance at getting it that nothing effective will ever get done.
No, we will not. Because we will still have the religious right and traditional politicians telling us that making money without working is evil and sinful, and the masses who will lose their jobs to robots will be massively screwed by the greed of the mega-rich and their own medieval beliefs. We're in this weird situation where technology has advanced exponentially while most of our population aren't substantially different from what they were 1000 years ago. And since there are plenty of unscrupulous people willing to take advantage of that, and technology hasn't yet figured a way to deal with human greed and lies, things will get ugly.
It never ceases to amaze me how people forget that "human nature" gets in the way of pretty much everything that is good and beneficial, because someone needs to profit massively or they will take their ball and go home. It's not OK to make millions and be happy, today's wealth class needs to make billions and drive the middle-class into the poor house so they can better measure how awesome they are.
I refuse to believe that humans are naturally greedy, it's just that we've created a system where the greedy are rewarded, so success is measured by money. We need to change the system, but as usual in a situation like this, the people who are successful in the current system wield the power, and they don't see why the system should be changed (or want any change) because they've been successful in it. They just say, "look, I could do this, so I'm better than you, stop whining".
This only gets broken by a revolution. The people in power are not going to voluntarily give it up by changing the system. Before money, it was ascendance, religion, etc. In each case it took a massive revolution to change. Unfortunately, things have changed for the better very slowly.
There will never be a revolution. Look at our most recent election. The masses are beyond stupid and gullible, but more importantly they are not hungry. The rich in this country will never allow people to actually get to that tipping point of hunger and despair that drives revolutions. They will just keep that carrot out there and enough people will always think that they actually have a chance at getting it that nothing effective will ever get done.
Only the Sith deal in absolutes.
I'm a Sith Lord, what's your point?
If that is indeed the case, then my comment still stands and you are free to continue dealing in absolutes.
Kind of a giveaway Obi-Wan's a Sith, yeah?
or someone with a dry delivery of their humor.
The Ben we meet by the time of Episode IV has some very heavy baggage. Saying is all.
The author didn't say that the process of getting to that future will be great.