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Stopping UBI won't stop automation, and you will still have to deal with the potentially massive rise of unemployment that could be caused by automation. You st
by gmuslera 7y ago
Stopping UBI won't stop automation, and you will still have to deal with the potentially massive rise of unemployment that could be caused by automation. You still will have dystopia with just automation and plutocracy, but somehow you will need to solve the implied unemployment, or the dystopia will be far worse.
- mlthoughts2018 7y agoI think really plutocracy + anything is dystopia. There’s just no way a small group of wealthy elites can organize society to pursue their (the plutocrats’) interests without devolving to dystopia. Some of the best things about society are that plutocrats can be brought to justice and market forces can bring financial empires down. These are extremely critical sorts of checks & balances on plutocracy, and we need to entrench them more and more, to make it harder and harder for plutocrats to hide from legal or financial consequences.