During the Cold War, it was commonly believed that once the threat of communism was defeated, we would enter utopian society. One where entrepreneurship and autonomy were valued above all else. There would be limitless innovation as humanity surpassed accomplishments left and right. It was going to be great.
But… communism has been dead for ~30 years now.
Capitalist society has decayed, rotted, become a bastardized version of itself. Wealth inequality is out of control, poverty is swallowing communities whole, and climate change is threatening all life on this planet.
It doesn’t feel like we won the Cold War.
It doesn’t feel like we won anything.
It feels like we’ve all been fucked.
And maybe that’s because we have been.
Time traveling
Once you see how our income-based laborforce really works (the fact that high profits depend on low wages), then you’ll finally understand why a digital (moneyless) system matching people to jobs, resources to communities, and daily production, consumption, and waste management operations to personal and professional demands is actually more sustainable and ethical than today’s global political economy, mainly because, compared to scientific-capitalism, scientific-socialism is a lot more democratic; it values and views our very basic, very intuitive belief “universal protections for all” as both a human need and an environmental right.