> If you ask my father who had it pretty easy most of his life: if the ruling class want us to keep buying their products and dont want to employ us, then prett

> If you ask my father who had it pretty easy most of his life: if the ruling class want us to keep buying their products and dont want to employ us, then pretty soon they're going to start handing out money ala UBI. Yeah, that scenario doesn't make any sense to me either. The automation barons won't care if the consumer product barons go bankrupt, so they will. > If you ask me: I'm not even sure the ruling class want us to keep buying their products any more. I think they just want to ensure that no one can ever touch them. If that's the plan, then we're really not necessary. I think the end-state for the fantasy of total automation is a few Elon Musks controlling all the productive capacity of the world and using it for vanity projects, while everyone else lives like rats in the cracks.