> If I am eating a delicious meal but the people preparing it had a miserable time, or it was prepared entirely by robots controlled by nefarious people using the profits to harm society, I don’t want it.
So every restaurant you go to, you head to the back to run a purity test on the political beliefs and “happiness” of the people making your food to make sure they line up exactly with what you believe?
This just screams luxury beliefs to me, and historically, Utopianism like this has been the actual dangerous slippery slope. Like…tens of millions of people starving dangerous.
I just don’t think this fully automated luxury communism thing you are fantasizing about will make you happy. Seeking pleasure 24/7 is pathological and means you stop feeling it, and doing things for the benefit of others instead of yourself is miserable…but ultimately more fulfilling.