The underclass can't. The system's default state as it functions now is to eliminate the "extra" people with depravation. Soon technology will make nearly every

The underclass can't. The system's default state as it functions now is to eliminate the "extra" people with depravation. Soon technology will make nearly everyone extra. So the best case scenario for the current system is that these extra people are quietly starved out while a very very few prosper beyond current imagination. History does not suggest it will play out this way. Far more likely is a revolution that will make the French revolution of recent history seem like a mild heckling. Many of the rich are worthless rent-seekers who probably deserve no less but some of those rich will be the people who bring the technology in the first place. If a revolution happens it will wipe out most of human progress. Enlightened self interest by the people on top is probably our best chance. I'm with Joe on this one. We're in the tough spot of discovering that our present economic system is becoming unsustainable and all the other ones we've tried so far have been much worse. UBI is the best idea I've heard so far.