{"id":80853,"date":"2018-07-22T11:22:24","date_gmt":"2018-07-22T18:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/why-the-transhumanist-movement-needs-socialism"},"modified":"2018-07-22T11:22:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-22T18:22:24","slug":"why-the-transhumanist-movement-needs-socialism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/why-the-transhumanist-movement-needs-socialism","title":{"rendered":"Why the Transhumanist Movement Needs Socialism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HHujfrRiWEI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A few days ago, transhumanist author and politician Zoltan Istvan had an article published on The Maven titled \u201cTranshumanism is Under Siege from Socialism.\u201d It was there that he stated, \u201cTranshumanists must favor the free world and free market to make its movement as powerful and successful as possible,\u201d and must equally \u201cbe on their guard against[socialism].\u201d I disagree \u2014 at least when it comes to the free market.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>In order to survive the impending trend of proliferated automation, transhumanists must prepare for a future that is post-capitalist by nature.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grayscott.com\/seriouswonder-\/\/why-the-transhumanist-movement-needs-socialism\">https:\/\/www.grayscott.com\/seriouswonder-\/\/why-the-transhuman...-socialism<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days ago, transhumanist author and politician Zoltan Istvan had an article published on The Maven titled \u201cTranshumanism is Under Siege from Socialism.\u201d It was there that he stated, \u201cTranshumanists must favor the free world and free market to make its movement as powerful and successful as possible,\u201d and must equally \u201cbe on their [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1501],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-transhumanism-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80853\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}