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And it raises a very scary question - at which point will we be seen as useless to the ruling caste? And useless resources are to be disposed of... I remember
by StefanBatory 2y ago
And it raises a very scary question - at which point will we be seen as useless to the ruling caste? And useless resources are to be disposed of...
I remember how once CEO of a company my dad worked at has called them. Cattle. Not humans.
That is what we are to the rich.
- ahoka 2y agoIt’s happening right now in the US.
- TuringNYC 2y agoSimilar discussion in the UK: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43245235 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43245235
- StefanBatory 2y agoI looked at first post and yeah. Same in Poland. Do try to guess how many of our MPs are landlords. Rhetoric question, of course.
- ReptileMan 2y agoI would suggest a revolution before the mass scale killer robots become available. Afterwards the only reason to keep the underclasses alive is purely sentimental. Which is not too thick a thread.
- fc417fc802 2y agoHow stable will the new government be after this hypothetical revolution? Will the technology for mass scale killer robots still be accessible? Isn't this tactic likely to just make the situation even worse than it already is?
- RGamma 2y agoAs relevant as ever https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchforks-are-coming-for-us-plutocrats-108014/ https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2014/06/the-pitchfor...
- nthingtohide 2y agoOne idea of Yuval Noah Harari is AI, robotics, etc will make the normal citizen irrelevant in the global economy. The ultimate barometer is if governments require less soldiers, the game is up, nobody will even care about common citizen.