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by grondilu 4321 days ago
This part in that future is actually made of shares in the stock market. If you want some, you have to buy it. Fortunately anyone can : it's a free market and you can enter with as little as a few hundreds bucks.
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But isn't it easier to do away with capitalism altogether so that we can all be equal, no matter the effort we put in?

This future of no capitalism people want scares the heck out of me, almost makes everything I've worked for pointless.

> This future of no capitalism people want scares the heck out of me, almost makes everything I've worked for pointless.

The future of continued capitalism scares the heck out of me, because it's the future of more and more people living on subsistence level, slaving away all their lives for increasingly smaller group of wealthy people, until the whole thing either collapses or the economic machine optimizes all humanity away for more profit and the Earth will be left with no people.

> slaving away all their lives

Well, the good news is that this won't be possible since they will soon be made useless by automation. You can't enslave someone who has no use for you.

Well, if even quality sex services get automated away in the end, then I guess we'll have no other choice than to say "so long and thanks to all the fish", followed by starving and dying.
Unfortunately people usually riot instead. Hopefully they will get their ass kicked.
> > This part in that future is actually made of shares in the stock market. If you want some, you have to buy it.

> > Fortunately anyone can : it's a free market and you can enter with as little as a few hundreds bucks.

> But isn't it easier to do away with capitalism altogether [...]

Are you suggesting that it's easier to do away with capitalism than it is to buy stock in a company?