Submitted by SantoshiEspada t3_10omwyu in Futurology
Laser-Brain-Delusion t1_j6gsxs5 wrote
I think it’s much more likely that there is no such basic income at all, and that companies continue on as though nothing is different, happily replacing as many warm bodies as possible with more efficient silicon hands and minds. There will be far greater wealth concentration than at any time in all of human history, in the hands of a few thousand extraordinarily wealthy families. Most people will be relegated to absolute penury as wages stagnate and prices continue to relentlessly rise. People will naturally stop having children as it becomes prohibitively expensive to raise them, and populations will decline. Violence will become far more common, as people are displaced by climate change and attempt to squeeze into the remaining areas on Earth that are habitable. The rich will retreat into lives preserved for hundreds of years through genetic and cybernetic intervention, and will potentially live lives of absolute luxury in the few extremely fine habitats on Earth, or in orbiting space stations with an extravagantly high entry price that all but assure the wealthy will live completely separate lives from the masses of humanity slowly dying in piles of filth at their feet.
Jaszuni t1_j6hw0u3 wrote
The crazy thing is. Someone 200 years ago could have described our situation now and it would sound like your description.
ladydafleurs t1_j6h5xrw wrote
This is definitely the dystopia i foresee, sadlt
[deleted] t1_j6k6t0n wrote
ITS NOT MURDER IF YOU KILL A CORPORATION. A CORPORATION IS NOT A PERSON.
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