Good point re aesthetics perhaps mattering more, and about people dis-valuing inequality and therefore not wanting to create a lot of moderately good lives lest they feel bad about having amazing lives and controlling vast amounts of resources.
Re âBut I donât think âŚâ in your first paragraph, I am not sure what if anything we actually disagree about. I think what you are saying is that there are plenty of resources in our galaxy, and far more beyond, for all present people to have fairly arbitrarily large levels of wealth. I agree, and I am also saying that people may want to keep it roughly that way, rather than creating heaps of people and crowding up the universe.
There might not be any real disagreement. Iâm just saying that thereâs no direct conflict between âpresent people having material wealth beyond what they could possibly spend on themselvesâ and âvirtually all resources are used in the way that totalist axiologies would recommendâ.
Good point re aesthetics perhaps mattering more, and about people dis-valuing inequality and therefore not wanting to create a lot of moderately good lives lest they feel bad about having amazing lives and controlling vast amounts of resources.
Re âBut I donât think âŚâ in your first paragraph, I am not sure what if anything we actually disagree about. I think what you are saying is that there are plenty of resources in our galaxy, and far more beyond, for all present people to have fairly arbitrarily large levels of wealth. I agree, and I am also saying that people may want to keep it roughly that way, rather than creating heaps of people and crowding up the universe.
There might not be any real disagreement. Iâm just saying that thereâs no direct conflict between âpresent people having material wealth beyond what they could possibly spend on themselvesâ and âvirtually all resources are used in the way that totalist axiologies would recommendâ.