In the original affluent society of the Ju/âhoansi, social equality is
maintained by
condemning
those who look might come to think of themselves as above the
rest.
If we develop robots that can do almost all the work we want done,
maybe we will all be able to work only 15 hours a week. But if we
want that society to be stable, we will need to adopt customs that
effectively discourage anyone from trying to be above the rest. In
other words, the post-scarcity society is the opposite of plutocracy.
I disagree with the use of the word "civilization" to describe
hunter-gatherers. The word refers to living in cities.