There’s never going to be post-scarcity. Resources are finite, land is finite, energy is finite. These things may become ever-more concentrated into the hands o

There’s never going to be post-scarcity. Resources are finite, land is finite, energy is finite. These things may become ever-more concentrated into the hands of a few, but they’ll never be infinite. New sources can always be captured and monopolized. The alternative to people voting themselves an income is wealthy people taking away the vote. If they can defend their holdings with robotic drone armies and AI-powered mass surveillance then democracy will collapse along with the economy. We need look no further than Eritrea for a real-world case study of what I’m talking about. A country with vast slums of people in absolute destitution kept separate from the wealthy aristocrats by walls and armed guards. Replace those guards with robots and there’s no reason that couldn’t happen here.