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TheRagingGeek@lemmy.world 2 days agoEverything has been a downward slide our entire lives which means it also rolls downhill for all the future generations too until someone can yank back on the economic flightstick and get us out of this dive.
FapFlop@lemmy.world 1 day ago
sfxrlz@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
Lets have another world war…
tetris11@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
No… no… No.
Let’s have some weird destablizing tech that rich people cannot control or bank on to level the playing field a little. (No, not AI - something like pre-2010 internet). That or aliens, who have the sole goal of trading with us only once our Gini coefficient drops to less than 0.05
SARGE@startrek.website 1 day ago
First thing anyone with matter replicators needs to do is IMMEDIATELY replicate 100 replicators and send them to enough countries that there’s no WAY for any corporation or rich fuck to quash it and maintain dominance.
Replicators would immediately destroy any economic system because no economic system would be needed when everything you can think of is a button press away.
Honestly any version of replicators…
Bags@piefed.social 1 day ago
I'll put on my best Keiko voice and disappointed stare.
"But Miles, where do you think the matter replicators get their matter from? And where does the power to run them come from? Until a complete and total change in human philosophy regarding the accumulation of wealth, any required resource will become the new vehicle of capitalistic control."
tetris11@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
Highly related Cory Doctorow story:
PrintCrime
craphound.com/stories/2006/01/12/printcrime/
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
There’s a famous saying that goes: