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Wealth inequality is the end game. Even within the united states the divide only gets bigger. This state can be maintained indefinitely as long as the ones on t
by crimsonalucard 9y ago
Wealth inequality is the end game. Even within the united states the divide only gets bigger. This state can be maintained indefinitely as long as the ones on the bottom aren't suffering enough to the point where they decide to just stop working or raise pitchforks.
- Mikeb85 9y agoIt won't even matter in a generation or less, when robots do most of the labour and the rich have autonomous robotic armies to protect them from the revolutionary masses...
- Jach 9y agoSeems like few of the masses will want to rebel anyway if they too have robots freeing them from the realities of classical poverty just as today's poor do. There's no fundamental need to work if your base needs of survival are met, working becomes needed only to get extra. Though for some they might go stir crazy without work, while others' base needs will be met simply by food, shelter, opiates, and video games.
- stephengillie 9y ago...the crusade against computers, thinking machines, and conscious robots begun in 201 B.G. and concluded in 108 B.G. Its chief commandment remains in the O.C. Bible as "Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind."