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automation can't eliminate the bargaining chip if the populace have no means to purchase goods produced by automation. That's why it's actually UBI that makes a
by sabujp 7y ago
automation can't eliminate the bargaining chip if the populace have no means to purchase goods produced by automation. That's why it's actually UBI that makes a huge chunk of people a slave to the system
- baddox 7y agoBut if the rich people need people to have money to buy their goods, and you’re saying UBI would be this money, where is the UBI money coming from? Why couldn’t the rich people just get that money directly?
- AstralStorm 7y agoWhy would the rich need the proles to buy anything, when their automated factories would make anything they want for them? The thing is, the rich only have the threat of violence then to keep poorer masses in check. Though there are many kinds of violence, disease, starvation, homelessness. The thing is, without the dictates of the rich, there will be places they would be unable or unwilling to reach. There, a socialism of even purer kind could start given enough automation. The problem would be hydraulic despotism. Resources like water, oil, metals would be hard to get.