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Socialism

If you think about it, there will come a day when machines, robots and AI, will do all the work, provide all the services and generate all the goods.

At that time, since people won’t be employed, only those that own the machines will have any ability to pay for goods and services.

So basically the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few people, as we see today, will accelerate.

Then there’s two scenarios;

  1. The majority use the political system to tax the wealthy and thus provide for a universal living wage, or
  2. The wealthy continue to use the medias to confuse the political system to prevent this taxation from happening, leading to an all-out crisis where one party or the other (the majority or the wealthy) gets wiped out.

On one hand, if the majority are poor and can’t consume then they starve but the planet benefits. If the majority are poor and can’t consume then the wealthy get less wealthy. Lots of competing issues here.

It sort of sounds like something Orwell would write about. I really can’t see it going any other way.