In case anyone else has the trouble i did with reading the green text, here’s all the text of the image.
Small brain: Automation is going to unemploy millions, so we need to create new busywork jobs to make sure everyone can keep getting paid and keep consuming.
Standard brain: We should institute a UBI (universal basic income) and fill the void of lost jobs with green new deal projects.
Mega brain: We should overthrow capitalism and build fully-automated luxury communism by democratizing the automation machines. We should also divvy up necessary work that can’t be automated so that each person is working significantly less.
Cosmic brain: “Full automation” (as implied by “fully-automated luxury communism”) is an unsustainable project that requires perpetual mineral extraction and which continues the individualist consumption habits of capitalism. We should use some automation where possible, but ultimately we ought to be transforming our relationship to labor and consumption in general. This will mean no new smart phones every year, fewer cars, less expectation of out-of-season food on store shelves, etc. - but it will also mean new avenues for conviviality and leisure, including the elimination of bullshit jobs, lots more free time, robust public spaces, more opportunities for festival and art, interconnected communities, and a renewed relationship with the Earth. Eco-socialism must remain international and future-oriented, but it can’t be based upon extractivist holdovers from capitalism. And so degrowth, decolonization, and de-alienation are central pieces to this puzzle.
I love bog bodies. I’m obsessed with bog bodies. They’re just there. Everybody knows what a bog body is.
no they dont
My dyslexic dumb bitch adhd caffeine riddled brain read this as “dog bodies” and The High from coming down off that horror was indescribably comforting. Thank you Bog Bodies whatever you are . you restored my faith in humanity
