I don't like spending this much time arguing against campism but they just keep talking at me.

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[–] [S] 4 points 1 month ago*

I think we're so far from that world that this is more a question of abstract philosophy than political theory. But for what it's worth, I think these are the three most common answers to that question:

  1. We reach a state of automated post-scarcity in which we don't need people to work;
  2. People work for the sake of personal satisfaction or community recognition or some other non-monetary reward;
  3. Goods and services are exchanged in a Gift Economy: people still get rewarded commiserate to their labor, but the exchange isn't mediated through currency.

Personally, I don't think it's something that we need to figure out this decades or next.

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