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History would seem to indicate we will go the Way of Elysium not Star Trek.... Most of the world will live in poverty (just like today) and a increasingly smal
by the_ancient 11y ago
History would seem to indicate we will go the Way of Elysium not Star Trek....
Most of the world will live in poverty (just like today) and a increasingly smaller group of humans will live in extreme luxury.
While idea's like UBI would be nice, the point to implement them I believe is past... They should have been created decades ago. If we wait until 20% or more of the jobs are replaced by automation, it will be to late for most people... Poverty will be the future... Poverty is the future for most.
- smarx007 11y agoPoverty is actually the reality for many today.
- RyanZAG 11y agoPoverty is the reality for most people 100 years ago, and for all of history. It's just in the last few hundred years where we've actually moved people out of poverty that we've come to the idea that people shouldn't be in poverty. Before that, it was just assumed that everyone besides the rulers were in poverty. And if you read stories from the time, there's never any idea that it could change or that peasants could all be royalty. Stories from pre-1500 that involve wealth are all generally about an extremely lucky peasant being married up to royalty, and that was pretty much the only way to move up from poverty. Well, that or war.