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by pixl97 875 days ago
> until some unforseeable rearrangement of the economy

I mean, telling the majority of the population that hey, you don't have secret knowledge, now you are mostly worthless is a completely foreseeable rearrangement of the economy, at least in the sense the rearrangement is coming. The question of how the new arrangement will look is unpredictable and likely spans anywhere from UBI to guillotines.