[ExI] Abundance Economy

[Adrian Tymes]

Only if they're the only ones doing it at scale - and if their loyalty
training programs work as the party leaders intend, which seems the biggest
flaw.  Mass manufacturing things, they can do.  Mass manufacturing loyalty
is another matter.  What happens if the clones revolt, seeing themselves as
loyal to the state, not personally to the party leaders (and all their
personal, non-manufactured eccentricities)?

On Mon, Jan 20, 2025 at 8:57 AM Ben Zaiboc via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On 20/01/2025 12:15, Adrian Tymes asked :
>
> So if the traditional method of increasing population is petering out,
> what's the path to substantial numbers of artificially-gestated,
> state-raised kids?
>
>
> Communism, I'd guess (the dystopian, de-facto kind, not the idealistic
> theoretical kind).
>
> After all, who would want substantial numbers of artificially-gestated,
> state-raised kids? Certainly not the genetic parents. But certain kinds of
> states definitely would. I can see the Chinese Communist Party regarding
> this as a brilliant solution to the declining population in mainland China.
> It would be perfect for raising large numbers of totally indoctrinated
> little pink disposable workers/soldiers, with no parents to oppose or
> object to it. They are already the biggest manufacturing centre in the
> world, so it wouldn't take much, once the technology exists, for them to be
> the biggest manufacturing centre of 'ideologically-correct' people in the
> world. And they could be 90% male (the other 10% would provide eggs for the
> next generation, as well as sex slaves for the party members).
>
> It would also clear the way to completely wipe out little problems like
> the Uighurs and Tibetans, Democracy activists, and all others who oppose
> The Party in even the smallest way.
>
> And of course, it would mean the totally loyal, unthinkingly obedient
> population of communist china was increasing while the population of the
> rest of the world was decreasing, which would only be a good thing in the
> eyes of people like Xi.
>
> In which case, we can all wave a tearful goodbye to the concept of an
> abundance economy. and give a terrified hello to a life of war and brutal
> slavery, topped off with an early death.
>
> --
> Ben
>
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