Every real-world example of material needs being met without economic competition (dorms, retirement communities, high school) produces vicious social hierarchies, not enlightenment." But this's a full blog post, someday, not an HN comment. Just for now realize that Star Trek is probably actually high school hell if you think about it for five minutes.

> Why is it an apocalypse if people don't have jobs anymore?

because i need to pay rent? eat? not die naked in ditch when i'm old?

Because all signs right now are pointing to new locked in systems of control instead of shared prosperity. These companies were supposedly non-profits who were supposedly deep thinking on improving things but they can't even get a basic narrative/philosophy out of how things will improve and have instead pivoted to for profit.

Our systems of power are locked in caveman style thought and don't seem capable of creating something new, just applying new tech to very very old, very coercive systems of power. Gone are the techno optimist days replaced by the tech companies with enshitification with them explicitly stating you will live worse so that they can have more profit, and that if there is nothing you can do to stop them, they will cater to their worst instincts.