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andrewrgross@slrpnk.net 6 days ago100%.
Peter Frase deconstructed this in an article a decade ago (and subsequent book) “Four Futures”.
It’s really not complicated. Saying 'the rich want to make us all obsolete and then kill us off ’ sounds paranoid and reactionary, but if you actually study these dynamics critically that’s a pretty good distillation of what they’d like to do, and they’re not really concealing it.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world 6 days ago
They won’t exceed either because once poor folks get desperate enough after the bread and circuses run out, then things get a little troublesome for everyone.