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0 pointsswalsh3y ago0 comments

In a world of UBI, and AI doing most of the work, how free are you? In every definition of the word. When we were all farmers, things were pretty equal, and power could be distributed evenly. In our industrialized world we lost a lot of freedom "effectively". In a world of UBI, and AI, you're completely at the whim of whoever owns the machines. The AI needs to be owned by everyone.

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noizejoy3y ago

> When we were all farmers, things were pretty equal, and power could be distributed evenly.

Peasants[0] living under feudalism[1] might argue that the large scale loss of equality already happened in agricultural societies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasant [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism

yeetard3y ago

Does freedom matter when there's nothing left to do?

noizejoy3y ago

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.[0]

[0] https://americansongwriter.com/me-and-bobbie-mcgee-by-kris-k...

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noizejoy3y ago

> When we were all farmers, things were pretty equal, and power could be distributed evenly.

Peasants[0] living under feudalism[1] might argue that the large scale loss of equality already happened in agricultural societies.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peasant [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudalism

yeetard3y ago

Does freedom matter when there's nothing left to do?

noizejoy3y ago

Freedom’s just another word for nothing left to lose.[0]

[0] https://americansongwriter.com/me-and-bobbie-mcgee-by-kris-k...

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