In an interview with Junge Freiheit, Curtis Yarvin proposed a way to transform Western societies from industrial economies into artisanal ones through the use of artificial intelligence and advanced robotics. It is primarily a vision for America, but in essence for the entire Western world. After all, he presented it in an interview with Junge Freiheit.
Are there other possibilities? If I were the dictator, I would introduce a system in which people worked three days a week — the work itself could be hard and tedious — had three days off, and spent one mandatory day each week in school for the rest of their lives. How would it be financed? Through lower corporate profits, lower executive bonuses, and lower returns on capital.
And quite possibly every reader would have his own ideas and visions, perhaps far more interesting than mine.
But we run into the same problem. Those who will shape the future will not be guided by the desire to build a well-functioning society of happy people. They will be motivated to maximize the profits of particular institutions and their own advantage, regardless of the consequences for everyone else. And anyone unwilling to accept that logic will have to settle for a secondary position — which, from an individual standpoint, may be a very wise choice, but it does nothing to solve the broader social problem. The combination of new technologies and the current economic model is pulling us inexorably toward catastrophe.
How did Karl Marx put it? When the contradiction between the relations of production — the economic order — and the means of production — technology — becomes unbearable, social change follows. Very often revolutionary change.
Perhaps, in the end, these new technologies will save the West after all.