Please don't post flamewar tropes to HN. They just lead to repetitive flamewars, which have nothing to do with what this site is supposed to be for. We want <i>curious</i> conversation here.<p><a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html</a>
If everything is a service, you have no actual control. You may feel you do, but you only have control within the services' matrices of operation. If you have no control, you're not free. You may feel the freest you've ever felt, but you're a slave.<p>So long as we still have the right to own a patch of this earth, not an apartment or a timeshare or etc. etc., but a lot of land, we will be able to talk about some kind of actual freedom. Because land doesn't depend on anyone or anything except the earth's outer mantle, and so whatever you put on your plot you control, including your person, and so you are free.
I only hope you don't get fired. There is another interesting related story "<i>Manna – Two Views of Humanity’s Future</i>" <a href="http://marshallbrain.com/manna.htm" rel="nofollow">http://marshallbrain.com/manna.htm</a>
Important context at the end of the article:<p>"Author's note: Some people have read this blog as my utopia or dream of the future. It is not. It is a scenario showing where we could be heading - for better and for worse. I wrote this piece to start a discussion about some of the pros and cons of the current technological development. When we are dealing with the future, it is not enough to work with reports. We should start discussions in many new ways. This is the intention with this piece."<p>Apparently it's a speculative fiction. Reads like an Onion article with a very trigger happy hook, which is why I guess a lot of people like to pass it as NWO propaganda.
It doesn't really explain why we will have no privacy.<p>I get why you might think that based on today's world, but this world seems deliberately utopian. Although it claims it isn't.<p>The vision seems incoherent in that respect. It can't seem to decide if it's a utopian vision or a vision of where current trends are taking us.
Why is there so often an assumption that when the robots can do everything people will suffer? Surely the robots can create fake jobs and enough supporting infrastructure so people who want to work can believe they are. Wouldn’t that be the kindest solution?<p>Certainly kinder than the current infrastructure of bullshit jobs.