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> The big question is will the majority be able to maintain enough power to obtain income for those who aren't working, or will we see some kind of serious clas
by a3n 10y ago
> The big question is will the majority be able to maintain enough power to obtain income for those who aren't working, or will we see some kind of serious class warfare/starving populations?
In the United States it will be the class warfare/starving thing. You don't deserve anything here unless you pay for it. Many people believe that taking unemployment compensation is shameful.
I think a lot of us will be fed in prisons.
EDIT: In some places you have to pay to not be vertical. https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/18/defensive-architecture-keeps-poverty-undeen-and-makes-us-more-hostile https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/feb/18/defensive-ar...
> Sculptor Fabian Brunsing brought a satirical eye to the issue by creating the “pay bench”, an art installation of a park bench that retracts its metal spikes for a limited time when the prospective sitter feeds it a coin. Chinese officials, completely missing the joke, thought that this was a great idea and installed similar benches in Yantai Park of the Shangdong province.
- hkmurakami 10y ago>You don't deserve anything here unless you pay for it. So true. Even things like safety, cleanliness, education quality, etc. are things we must pay for here, in stark contrast to other countries in the world.
- greedo 10y agoSomeone is paying for it... TANSTAAFL
- nico_h 10y agoYou mean made to work for insulting wages and subsistence in prison sweatshops. Prison population is a captive source of cheap labor, easily abused and exploited.
- a3n 10y agoAnd they don't go home at night.
- sqldba 10y agoI thought prison food isn't free. Over in America the inmates have to either pay for it or work to pay for it.