Well.. I actually think that anything that qualifies as a job is more or less going in the category of wage slave.
I just think that the extreme hierarchies and subservience are unnecessary and detrimental. I think we need to examine our basic assumptions and have a realistic perspective about the actual level of suffering that is currently going on in the world.
We need to see the extreme inequality as being unacceptable and move away from the Social Darwinian rationalizations.
Well, just to clarify further, whenever I talk like this, people think I mean to completely do away with money and/or move towards a traditional socialist or techno-communist model.
I don't want to do that. I think that almost all anti-capitalists are missing a very important lesson that we can take as a major success of capitalism: diversity and distribution is very important for robustness and ease of system evolution. Technocrats, techno-communists, social democrats, almost all seem to be aiming for centralization which has been proven to be extremely inadequate.
So I think the way forward is to create a system that while encouraging a great diversity of distributed, localized solutions to problems, at the same time the local solutions are developed and evaluated holistically over a comprehensive common global scientific information schema and database.
I just think that the extreme hierarchies and subservience are unnecessary and detrimental. I think we need to examine our basic assumptions and have a realistic perspective about the actual level of suffering that is currently going on in the world.
We need to see the extreme inequality as being unacceptable and move away from the Social Darwinian rationalizations.