On Automation & Lifestyle in the 21st Century

Have you ever heard the phrase, “fully automated luxury communism?” I hadn’t either, until Annie Lowrey at The Atlantic wrote an article about it. In it, she concludes:

“Humans in rich societies could and arguably should work far less than they do, and might thrive far more if they did, FALC argues. There is no need for the world to look like Star Trek for that to become reality.”

Fully automated luxury communism reminded me of Star Trek, too, as I read the article, because that’s basically what The Federation is, isn’t it…