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by whatever1 46 days ago
You will need electricity, water you will be producing waste etc. in your Tennessee house. Why would someone who owns all of the power and resources share with you?

Really I don’t see any playable alternative other than near complete annihilation of human race. It’s very similar to a nuclear apocalypse. Very few get to survive.
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qsera 46 days ago
>Why would someone who owns all of the power and resources share with you?

Ideally governments will see to it. This also assumes that governments have a much larger army of robots than any private individual. Just like how governments makes it illegal to own firearms, it will be illegal to own certain class of robots with combat capability..

Thus governments (the people really/ideally) will see to it that everyone will be comfortable with minimum amount of work utilizing the robots.

One can dream!

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vinyl7 45 days ago
With the way things are now, the corporations own the government. The 'government' is not some sort of impartial mediator that people have been lead to believe it is
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qsera 45 days ago
The government at least has to maintain the appearance.
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asdff 45 days ago
No it doesn't. Propagandize the population sufficiently and they won't accept the reality in front of them.
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oh_my_goodness 45 days ago
It needs votes. It is better than dealing directly with the corporations, which don't need votes.
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tennfown 45 days ago
The “government” is a collection of dementia patients and pedophiles.
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pastel8739 46 days ago
Realistically though, if there are some humans left, they are going to want to live in a society. Humans are fundamentally social and I think the people in charge would eventually realize this. But then again rich people are not normal, so maybe not
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pixl97 46 days ago
>they are going to want to live in a society.

Now stop and imagine what kind of society the rich people you know and hear of would want to live in?

Do they want a bunch of poors around? Of course not. Do they want to give the money so they are not poor? Of course not. Would many of them just 'erase' said poor people. History says yes.

Do they want a bunch of dumb people around? Of course not. Do they want to give them education so they are not dumb? Of course not. Would many of them just 'erase' said dumb people. History says yes.

Do they want a bunch of ugly people around? Of course not. Do they want to give them plastic surgery, genetic manipulation so they are not ugly? Of course not. Would many of them 'erase' said ugly people. History says yes.

There are a number of people that already think that the Earths population should be culled back to a few million people. Giving people that believe this power seems to be a really good way to cause a genocide.

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