But labor is a necessity to survive, and always has been. We need the production of goods and services. Of course the distribution of wealth and goods is also an issue, but somebody (or something) has to produce the things we use.
Not yet, but it's an interesting thought experiment if nothing else. Someday, thanks to advances in robotics and computers, human labor will become largely obsolete. So the question is how do we structure our society when that happens?
But if you believe that other people believe something has value, then you also believe it has value. You wouldn't accept money for something if you believed it had no value.
You can have conversations IRL that nobody will monitor or have any record of. I swear, people these days have forgotten how to exist in the real world.
I wouldn't call moderated internet communities a panopticon. You can opt out at any time, which is pretty antithetical to the definition of a panopticon.
Because humans are social animals, and these sorts of customs are signals to each other that we're all willing to abide by the social rules our societies follow.
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