Today I came across the following quote;
Tengo un cuento que se titula Utopía de un hombre que está cansado, en el que se supone que todo hombre se dedica a la música, que todo hombre es su propio Brahms; que todo hombre se dedica a la literatura, que todo hombre es su propio Shakespeare.
The translation should read like this;
I have a story called Utopy about a man who is tired, which is apparently about a man who dedicates himself to Music, where everybody is their own Brahms, where every man is into literature, where everybody is their own Shakespeare.
With automation, A.I. and robotics, in general, we may be living soon in a world where most of us will be redundant for the economy. Let's say a viable solution is that Corporations who use robots or software related tools, have to pay a tax on every FTH replacement (Full-time head).
In that case for every ten productive workers laid off, 2.5 will be paid by the employer to the Government or decentralized fund to cover the missed income. If possible, the government would also dedicate part of their resources (Central Bank printing) into a UBI (Universal Basic Income).
Either Utopian or Dystopian, this could be a world where either we or our next in kind will live pretty soon. Boston Dynamics, Tesla,
So, I come back to Borges, was he a visionary of those times? On his eyes, a “Utopia,” a world where the amount of leisure time would allow many to reach their maximum capacity in a specific Art of life.
Is funny, because I may now be writing in what could be that same Art of mine in the future, considering I am already creating an income and developing this skill. While I spend most of my free time discovering this platform, I could also be setting a previous path for an alternative income while doing one of the things I love the most.
Maybe Borges was not too far away from that future, where many people will live as only those from really wealthy families have reached before, a passive income World that let Aristocratic families raise geniuses. Genuity many times is not about a higher IQ from the individual, but the nurture of several different soft skills which allow people to exploit their capabilities at a much higher level.
I have read many people saying; there are no ugly people, only poor people. Being cynical about how lack of resources impact in the way others see and accept us. I could say that there is no stupid people; just people with fewer opportunities to whom education was out of reach.
Steemit may be a founding stone for a world like this; yet is to be seen. And Borges who saw so much through the eyes of wisdom, paradoxically lost his vision close to his death, maybe to open them to that which is not to be seen by the physical sight.
Let's keep building together this Utopy of Steem.
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