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0 pointsidiotsecant5h ago0 comments

No they won't, not if they have just enough bread and circuses and someone below them to hate. Boil the frog slowly enough and it'll work out just fine for the capital class.

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bonoboTP1h ago

Bread, circus, strife, anger, hopelessness, antinatalist cultural products and it doesn't need anything aggressive or spectacular. People will just cease to reproduce seemingly of their own will. South Korea to the nth power.

c-smile3h ago

Yep. Evolutionary way to get to communism where "from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs" [1]

[1] "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_each_according_to_his_abi...", circa 1875

ako3h ago

I don't see how you can relate this to communism. Sounds more like oligarchy/roman empire: a few own almost everything, but most have almost nothing and are being controlled with bread and games. Marxism is the opposite where everything is owned by everyone (in theory).

c-smile2h ago

What would be the name of the society where, say, 30,000 people + technology produce enough food and goods to satisfy the needs of the rest of Earth population?

So those people will get whatever they need for life but will not be technically obligated to produce anything.

We will first switch to 4 day working week, then 3 and so on, right? We will see Universal Basic Income "experiments" [1] more often until they become a norm.

At least we are on the way to all this...

[1] https://weall.org/resource/finland-universal-basic-income-pi...

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