[HN Gopher] 'Everyday Utopia' Review: The Road to Nowhere
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       'Everyday Utopia' Review: The Road to Nowhere
        
       Author : Petiver
       Score  : 23 points
       Date   : 2023-07-17 19:02 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | sinistersnare wrote:
       | What a negative take on a book about hope for the future.
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       | The book looks at the 1% of the people who live life away from
       | our global system of capital worship. I have not read it yet, but
       | listened to a long interview of Ghodsee about it and am excited
       | to pick up a copy.
        
       | archo wrote:
       | https://archive.is/GTZCC
        
       | Thoeu388 wrote:
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       | Animats wrote:
       | It's really hard to build a utopia that scales. Israel in the
       | kibbutz era came reasonably close. Originally, there was almost
       | no private propertly and everybody was paid the same.[1] What
       | they couldn't survive was a rising standard of living. Despite
       | this, there are still about 130,000 people living in some form of
       | kibbutz in Israel.
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       | [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz
        
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