Walk current technological progress down the road.

I can't see a future in which almost every system (both physical and virtual) are not automated and optimized by autonomous entities.

What do you do when everyone is out of a job?

If you don't want pitchforks and riots in the streets, you give everyone UBI and housing so society doesn't collapse.

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tokioyoyo 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> If you don't want pitchforks and riots in the streets, you give everyone UBI and housing so society doesn't collapse.

As much as I’d love UBI to happen, in current geopolitiks it’s a no-go. People are not happy with having what the others have.

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tripleee 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Autonomous police drones will likely be able to handle the pitchforkers and rioters

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bgarbiak 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’m all for an UBI but a future where people have no purposeful jobs, no way to actually make a real difference to anything around them, is a bleak one.

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greenowl 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

How do you determine who gets the house on the beach? Who gets the mountain view? Who gets stuck with the corner lot on a busy noisy road?

	▲	tripleee 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It wouldn't be a redistribution of our current assets like that. I think there would be a whole lot of repurposing of these things. The beach houses, mansions, mountain views could be vacation places, or used as libraries, or simply dismantled for the materials. The "slums" on noisy roads could be eliminated entirely and used for something people don't need to be at. We'd move to a more equal distribution of assets closer to the middle line.

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exe34 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Or you build bunkers and build robots to keep the riffraff out. Shock collars on the guards' necks.