But then how would the billionaires make money?
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But what about the billionaires? Who's helping them out, huh?
Oh how will they SURVIVE???
WHAT IF:
We didn’t rely on a system that requires infinite growth to make shareholders money that drives under- and unemployment in order to make those profits?
Dear capitalists: If your excuse that you can’t ‘survive’ (actual excuse I’ve heard from capitalists) without gouging people, your system is busted.
That's kind of a scary thought, that I think humanity is about to try out next. As in, who needs the humans anymore, when robots will do the same tasks with far less effort?:-|
And that's when the poor people get to just fucking starve to death!
You are here
Shit.
I can’t starve to death if I have an EdibleFriend though, come visit.
Maybe not just poor people this time! Don't really even need a working class at all if there's no work to be done
i mean we have movies about that. the family friendly one is Wall-E
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The trick is to do the very minimum to help the lower class, get them to hate each other, and hate immigrants.. but for some reason, not pay attention to the billionaires hiding behind the curtain.
It's existed since slavery. Thinly veiled with 'we're an individualistic society' and 'pull yourself up by your bootstraps'.
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OR ELSE...!
You'll be happy with what you got.
We fucking didn't. Our lords n masters decided they needed a new underclass to keep them going and this is all gonna end very very badly. Importing people from fucking fighting nations into polite nations causes 2 fighting nations.
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This presupposes that there aren't extensively connected sociopaths in your community.
Why?
Because greedy, selfish assholes are very, very good at abusing and ruining a society for their own benefit. Keeping them out of the way and from making trouble is the only way the kind of society OP posted about would have any chance to survive long-term.
We really need to find a way to do that. Maybe entice them away with a kingship on Mars, or something?
I think the solution is for all the non assholes to work together to stamp out the assholes and remove them from having power. Incredibly difficult, but not impossible. It's the same class war that's been waged by the wealthy for decades. Theyve never stopped attacking, we just suck at working together and have allowed them to gain waaaay too much ground.
They're always going to be on the bus, but we can at least push them to the back where they can't fuck with where we want to go.
I think you just need equal power and more horizontal structures, nothing to abuse then.
OK, so propose a system that's actually been used at scale before that doesn't have the same issues as capitalism. I'm all ears
Lmao, The fact that something hasnt been used at scale doesn't mean it isn't feasible.
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