Vanilla technostism: fully automated workplaces and/or wanting fully automated workplaces. As you may know, jobs are being automated, but automation has always created new jobs. This is due to the fundamental nature of automation being a physical process. This won't last forever: at some point in the near future, we will begin automating mental processes. We usually call this "artificial intelligence" and "synthetic intelligence." At which point, humans workers are no longer necessary. Actually, in this case 'workers' refers to everyone from janitors to the CEOs. With no way nor reason for humans to participate in the workforce, the economy effectively shuts down since the consumer class has no way to earn money. No way for a worker to earn money means no way for a boss to earn profits. Technostists want to find a way to profit from automation in an egalitarian manner. The prevailing thought right now is through the use of enterprises and worker-run businesses/co-operatives so there can be a "co-operative automated network" (the libertarian option), and another thought is the creation of a wealth tax on the produce of automata, so that a UBI can be funded directly from the result of droid labor (the statist option). The hub for discussing technostism is here https://www.reddit.com/r/Technostism/ There's also a wiki. http://technostism.wikia.com/wiki/Technostism It's basically an ultra-high tech revival of syndicalism. Also, Karl Marx talked about this exact same thing 200 years ago, so it's sort of a "getting back to roots" thing. Return to the original communist idea (i.e. people are freed from labor by droids), before all the BS of Leninism and Stalinism and Trotskyism and Maoism and shaggism and baggism, and continue on from there. Erik Brynjolfsson calls this the 'Digital Athens' scenario. The block of text at the top describes what I've termed the Parable of the Capitalists. TL;DR Free the workers, enslave the robots! I don't want to spend the rest of my life forced to chase the dollar just to survive, so let a droid do that for me and I can be allowed to do what I will. It shouldn't matter if that means write 1,000,000 novels or laze around with an Oculus Rift and on a water bed. The only real issue is the name, it's terrible (but no one's come up with a better one).
