Fully Automated Luxury Communism

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kate reseñó Fully Automated Luxury Communism de Aaron Bastani

aged very badly

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Advertencia de contenido disucssion of mentioned economic concepts

Praises elon musk (I know, the book was published in 2019, before we knew he was a nazi. Still..), it's aged pretty badly. It's sci-fi without the plot. The brief moment it discusses pure policy is towards the end, claiming that UBI can't work because it didn't work one time with a very small amount of money, ignoring all the times it did work when using enough money to live on. It's fine, I guess, maybe as a starting off point to read some of these ideas in more detail somewhere else.

Also, the name of the book on the front cover is printed in some glittery ink that comes off on my fingers...

Justinas Dūdėnas reseñó Fully Automated Luxury Communism de Aaron Bastani

On global politics and economics of urgency, with hope

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I appreciate the direction Bastani is heading towards a lot. All the basic premises about global overproduction, growing inequality and climate crisis are decently analysed. The cause of this mess is also correctly attributed to politics. Yet many things made me shrug: from heavy leaning on the idea that economic progression curves are doomed to continue as they did before, to the very concrete economic proposals, which require much more context to evaluate (at least in my case). I expected more direct politics (apart from just advocating populism), and probably general inspiration. However, in my eyes this is a work born of urgency, and it does its job. It helps setting up an extremely important civilisational discourse by articulating perspectives and proposals to discuss. Bastani should simply be praised just for that.

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