by Sixstrings » Tue 01 Feb 2011, 21:16:28
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Ludi', 'I') watched the end of it, the solutions portion. Which is very Sci-fi and cool and the end of the film is very uplifting with everyone throwing their money away. But then I'm left wondering how they are going to survive, with no money and no alternative way of life in place. Remember that city with those magical machines and computers hasn't been built yet.
Ah, ok, that explains Ruppert's guarded praise then. Yup, you have to wonder how these people think we're going to get to this Star Trek future where there's no money anymore yet everybody has food to eat and clothes to wear and places to live. For one thing, without money how do you get people to do crap jobs?

With no monetary incentive that means you'd need slavery or totalitarianism.
Mos has mentioned a new "energy based" economy a few times, but has never explained. In fact I haven't seen anyone explain just how a post-money society works. Even communists have money, after all (they just have to wait in line a long time to spend it).
I'll try to finish the movie sometime. Farthest I got was the part on disease and how some diseases wouldn't exist without our society being how it is blah blah blah. Probably true, and interesting, but interesting in a philosophical throwing ideas around sense -- nothing practical there.