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100 oligarchs can own everything and trade among each other to fulfill their megaprojects. Does a pharaoh care who built his pyramid? Or spaceship? The workers
by failuser 3y ago
100 oligarchs can own everything and trade among each other to fulfill their megaprojects. Does a pharaoh care who built his pyramid? Or spaceship?
The workers will still be needed to laugh at their suffering. Unless robots get better than humans even at that.
- SoftTalker 3y agoWhere are the pharaohs today? That sort of social imbalance leads inevitably to revolution. Always has. It's not sustainable.
- cm2012 3y agoYep. The most powerful demographic in America today don't even have jobs, it's people 60+ voting to keep social security and Medicare and kicking away the ladder.
- JohnFen 3y ago> it's people 60+ voting Most of the people I personally know who are 60 and older have jobs.
- pixl97 3y agoThe pharaohs of today? They are launching war against their neighbors in Ukraine.
- galaxyLogic 3y agoRight, the problem I see is that dictators like to help each other. It is in their interest to make deals with other dictators because they can, rather than their own people, which they can't unless they allow free elections. For instance Trump's best friends seem to be Putin and other autocrats. Why is that? Because they can make deals with each other, to suppress democracy everywhere.
- debatem1 3y agoIt's no coincidence that we in the US have massive wealth inequality and are constantly teetering on the edge of political instability.
- SoftTalker 3y agoWe've always had massive wealth inequality. Look at Rockefeller or Carnegie or du Pont compared to immigrants living 10 to a room in NYC tenements.
- failuser 3y agoWait, so you think that pharaohs were overthrown by a popular uprising? Xi, Kim and Putin sit pretty sturdily in their sits.