...so I'm gonna tell you something here instead.
I think a future communist society would have more nomads. For the bulk of humanity's existence, nomadic life was the norm. Property and contractual obligation has made settled life mandatory in most of the imperial core, with a slim handful of exceptions.
Here in the states, the contradiction is mind-boggling. We're told the settlement of America was necessary to the establishment of freedoms, that nobody else enjoys as much liberties as we do today. And yet, for those "liberties", we had to stop people from leading nomadic lives. Corralled and marched people miles, so they could be free. Stole babes from families, so they could be free. Free to do what, exactly?
Centuries ago, nomadic life was a fundamental freedom for millions. Maybe it could be again...
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...not that I know what that nomadic life would look like, or how it would interplay with settled life... just that it seems like something that should be striven for
We have several groups of nomadic persons now. After the future it would only get easier. Solar powered wagons, nice tents, free food, and distributed manufacturing would be reducing the importance of societal isomorphism.
The extant groups of migratory people we have now are laborers, entertainers, and travelers. I expect we'd have something similar.
I can see rainbow family like theater troops roaming around doing performances. Larp kingdoms going around finding new places to have their fairs. Regular people just getting bored and wandering for a while. Sea people following weather latterns. It wouldn't be for everyone but I imagine there would be a pretty significant population.
free food would not be an easy thing to organise societally
I mean, in a communist future it would be just so. Food is already cheap and we make more than we can use with only something like 3%of world population farming.
Rainbow family! Wow, I haven't thought of them in forever. I remember once when the Rainbow gathering was in Italy, one of them went mushroom gathering and cooked up some tasty Destroying Angels. A helicopter had to medevac the now liverless person to a hospital for an emergency organ transplant. The Rainbows were not pleased by this loud metal monster landing in their camp.
Oh damn, that makes complete sense that would happen but that is terrible