As humanity progresses through technology and the automated age, we continue to reduce the amount of effort needed for an individual to live. Once it was necessary for most people to obtain food for themselves, which took up most of that individual's energy. Now, a portion of people collect food for the others, while the others perform different work like scientific research or building bridges, which is generally supposed to advance humanity. However, I reason that there must be an attainable level of progress that could permit all people to work less and still live in comfort. Right now, to attain a level of financial stability associated with comfort, you have to work extremely hard to advance over your peers. If, instead of existing in a cutthroat system where competition for an excess of money means working extra long hard hours in order to earn that money, we were to reach a level of wealth in our species that would allow everyone to live in comfort no matter how hard they work, it would mean that our species has truly progressed. In this ideal/future society, hard work could still be rewarded with excess wealth. So really the main problem I see in current society is the focus on individual advancement, as opposed to the assurance of everyone's basic level of comfort.
Eventually, there will be too many people competing for the few jobs left. Society will be so far advanced that most people will have nothing to do. But I think that if we are that advanced, instead of rewarding the most competitive people with a way to make a living for themselves, everyone should live in a basic level of comfort, and people who want to attain more should be able to work for it. However, the needs of everyone would be addressed before the wealth/individual achievement of the ambitious people. Call me a communist if you like (however the correct term would be a socialist), I just see this being the natural state of things in the future. Fuck you, capitalism.
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