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by wturner 1919 days ago
"Relieving humans from having to worry about or deal with money would be an actual Copernican revolution. How that would work is beyond me, but that's precisely why it would be revolutionary."

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It's called communism and everytime it's tried it ends in genocide and hundreds of millions murdered.
It exist in granular form in government safety nets, universal healthcare and a handful of other policies in some parts of the world. it also exists in various disjointed pockets of the human experience outside of any easily identified ideological framework. Beyond those tools, it's not called anything because it doesn't exist in totality.
No it's not. Your argument is a straw man fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man.
No, it's called absolute automation, and it's hard but possible within realm of capitalism.
You assume that homo sapiens would be satisfied at an arbitrary stage of the Maslow pyramid
Not being forced to choose "work or death" every day of their lives would free people to actualize the fuck outta themselves