Funny how socialism (or some variant of it) is now returning back to having not just a ‘good’ name, but is being proposed as a model to actually save society.
Definitely the combo approach is required — plus, I’d add bring back and/or increase attention on spiritual and consciousness evolution; improving our interpersonal relationship skills; artistic, creative endeavors; philosophy; politics; the humanities; the sciences; health and recreational pursuits — and the idea that being free to pursue those kinds of activities (rather than “earning” a living in forced servitude) is actually an acceptable proposition for all human beings. Wasn’t that the promise of the captains of the industrialist era in the first place? Isn’t that the progressive fulfillment of the Utopian ideal?
The only downside (apart from forcing those who own the means of production to part with substantial amounts of their wealth for redistribution back to the People) is human population and consumption of natural resources. Resolving the technological redundancy pickle means a consequence we will create that will need addressing: our finite planet only has so much carrying capacity for humans and animals (and we need to find a balance with other animal earthlings besides ourselves and stop pushing them off the edge of extinction just so humanity can expand and grow more), so how will we set a population limit and enforce that limit? How do we control consumption? These have huge ethical implications.