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What do you suppose we all do during the transition to utopia? How do we feed our families once we've been laid off and while we wait for the arrival of paradis

• plastic3169 3y ago
  When large swaths of people no longer can employ themselves based on their skills their political views will start to slide. There will be a new mainstream view that maybe tax base needs to be expanded to take into account the new reality. It will be tough to fight back the majority of this size in a democracy. Maybe even in more authoritarian systems. When machines can replace most of the low end labor it becomes increasingly unuseful to keep people in poverty. Imagine being one of the few megarich alive, being able to produce teslas like it was a SaaS business, amazing margin, great moat, but 99% of your fellow humans were on poverty not even able to dream about having a car. There is always the technodystopian path, but to get there is not so easy either. You need to keep people relatively happy for long enough that you have manufactured enough killerbots. Most humans want to preserve civilization. The idea that your job provides for you is 100% fabricated construction that is great local maxima for this society. When technology changes what is possible we will reorganize the beehive of humanity to take into account that these new machines exist.
• bbor 3y ago
  I know :(. Sadly/happily the only answer in my eyes is “massive political reform”, which is never done easily or without intense collateral suffering. I feel like humanity is in a deeply reactive, surfing-the-waves-of-circumstance situation, for better or worse.