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by noir_lord 3842 days ago
What interests me about your argument is the assumption that the "poor starving" will just sit by and passively accept that.

The reason we don't have an insurrection on our hands now about wealth disparity is that while the wealth of the super wealthy has accelerated hugely so has the general living standard of the poor, if (when) the jobs go away that will no longer be the case and then you are talking about a brutal escalation into a full insurrection and while the technology and wealth will be on one side, the last 15 years in the middle east has shown what committed people with pickups and AK's can do against an on-paper massively superior opponent.

I just hope the super wealthy are smart enough to see this coming and avoid it, it would be spectacularly brutal.