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One thing I’ll say for Tumblr: it gave me exactly the language I needed to explain why I hated The Beach Beneath the Street. The book’s about a theory of what would now be called Fully Automated Luxury Communism, but it puts no effort into the Fully Automated part. It’s all about how to restructure society away from capitalistic production and towards leisure, but the required advances in automation and goods production are treated as something that will automatically happen and don’t require any particular effort. It seems selfish—“I take the fun part of society-building, and someone else over there takes the labor-intensive part.”