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Muy interesante artículo y sobre todo la descripción de la lógica situacional en la que se encuentra el gobierno en la presente coyuntura. Pero en cuanto a definir como horizonte político del país la utopía sci-fi de Musk… la verdad, me resulta atractiva la alternativa utópica que plantea una figura mencionada en tu artículo, aunque quizás se “pase de socialdemócrata” desde tu perspectiva:

“The strenuous purposeful money-makers may carry all of us along with them into the lap of economic abundance. But it will be those peoples, who can keep alive, and cultivate into a fuller perfection, the art of life itself and do not sell themselves for the means of life, who will be able to enjoy the abundance when it comes. Yet there is no country and no people, I think, who can look forward to the age of leisure and of abundance without a dread. For we have been trained too long to strive and not to enjoy. It is a fearful problem for the ordinary person, with no special talents, to occupy himself, especially if he no longer has roots in the soil or in custom or in the beloved conventions of a traditional society. To judge from the behaviour and the achievements of the wealthy classes today in any quarter of the world, the outlook is very depressing! For these are, so to speak, our advance guard-those who are spying out the promised land for the rest of us and pitching their camp there. For they have most of them failed disastrously, so it seems to me-those who have an independent income but no associations or duties or ties-to solve the problem which has been set them.

I feel sure that with a little more experience we shall use the new-found bounty of nature quite differently from the way in which the rich use it today, and will map out for ourselves a plan of life quite otherwise than theirs. For many ages to come the old Adam will be so strong in us that everybody will need to do some work if he is to be contented. We shall do more things for ourselves than is usual with the rich today, only too glad to have small duties and tasks and routines. But beyond this, we shall endeavour to spread the bread thin on the butter-to make what work there is still to be done to be as widely shared as possible. Three-hour shifts or a fifteen-hour week may put off the problem for a great while. For three hours a day is quite enough to satisfy the old Adam in most of us! There are changes in other spheres too which we must expect to come. When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall be able to rid ourselves of many of the pseudo-moral principles which have hag-ridden us for two hundred years, by which we have exalted some of the most distasteful of human qualities into the position of the highest virtues. We shall be able to afford to dare to assess the money-motive at its true value. The love of money as a possession -as distinguished from the love of money as a means to the enjoyments and realities of life -will be recognised for what it is, a somewhat disgusting morbidity, one of those semicriminal, semi-pathological propensities which one hands over with a shudder to the specialists in mental disease.“

John Maynard Keynes, “Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren” (1930)

P.D.: nótese la referencia a la historia del Jardín del Edén

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fernui's avatar

“De esta forma, las naciones son vehículos para llevar adelante este trabajo, manteniendo y potenciando con ello las identidades que supieron construir.”

Acá creo que te engañas. Si hay algo que caracteriza al capital liberado a su propia dinámica aceleracionista es a establecer jerarquías geoeconómicas y, hoy en día se ve mucho, a barrer las particularidades culturales e identitarias de cada país. La libre circulación de capitales y cultura corroe la propia e instala la que mejor vende. El horizonte libertario podrá cumplir tus fantasías de tener una supuesta libertad de hacer en el mundo, pero será a costa de la Nación y no con ella.

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