Apparently, fully automated luxury communism is more than just a meme. We read some articles about it and decided to have a discussion about its merits and shortfalls. Is a post labor society something that is possible or desirable? Is technology really shifting the base of society in a direction that makes fully automated luxury communism more likely? How do we define the concept of luxury and is it really something we'd like perpetuate? Do we as a civilization, species, or planet even have time for something like this to come to fruition before we face total annihilation?Fully automated luxury communism: a utopian critiquehttps://libcom.org/blog/fully-automated-luxury-communism-utopian-critique-14062015Fully Automated Luxury Communism — A Reviewhttps://medium.com/swlh/fully-automated-luxury-communism-a-review-a127d94dcb9aIs a Post-Work, Post-Scarcity Future Possible?https://www.bookforum.com/print/2602/fully-automated-luxury-communism-by-aaron-bastani-22004 FULLY AUTOMATED LUXURY COMMUNISM: A MANIFESTO BY AARON BASTANIhttps://societyandspace.org/2019/09/03/fully-automated-luxury-communism-a-manifesto-by-aaron-bastani/James Bridle on why technology is creating a new dark agehttps://www.theverge.com/2018/7/16/17564174/james-bridle-new-dark-age-book-computational-thinking-interviewAaron Bastani’s ‘luxury communism’ is a false futurehttps://canadiandimension.com/articles/view/fully-automated-luxury-communism-reviewReview: Fully Automated Luxury Communismhttp moo s://www.rs21.org.uk/2019/06/09/review-fully-automated-luxury-communism/Artificial Stupidityhttps://lareviewofbooks.org/article/artificial-stupidity/Inventing The Futurehttps://lareviewofbooks.org/article/on-algorithmic-communism/Support the show