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by jeremyjh 1173 days ago
Its fine we'll just eat the rich.

But in all seriousness, in a capitalist society the people holding the capital have to solve existential problems (not to humanity itself, but to the economic system in this case), because they control all the resources required to do so. If they decline to do so, we'll replace them with new owners of capital.