SOME ppl get to have great lives, happy lives, with love and comfort and security, while the rest of live us live like shit, in misery?
Yeah yeah “life isn’t fair,” but why shouldn’t it be?
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I suppose the answer to “Why shouldn’t life be fair?” is the competitive aspect of evolution. If everyone’s satisfied and content, then there’s not much of a motivation to increase your power or dominate others. But if you have a constant craving for more, then it drives you to invent new weapons, seek out new opportunities etc. It gives you a competitive advantage. So such instincts are rewarded genetically and passed on.
Which doesn’t mean it always has to be that way. Who knows what kind of societies will be possible with future technology and enough self-understanding.
Yup, GREED is the answer as to why life isn’t fucking fair.
“If everyone’s satisfied and content, then there’s not much of a motivation to increase your power or dominate others. ”
Yeah, it’s bc there’s douchebags (billionnaires) who are never satisfied with enough, and look to extract wealth/cheap labor from the poor and middle class, and so we get screwed. I’m so tired of getting screwed. Sigh…
Humans should just become extinct overnight. End all our suffering. The current system benefits the 1%, the next 30% live pretty good lives, and the bottom 70 live miserable fucking lives, eeking out a meager existence. I mean, give or take some %s, but that’s basically it. So BILLIONS have to suffer so the 1% can live like kings. Fuck them all. We should go back to guillotining the rich.
the future will be the same as it is today, and same as it has always been for hundreds of thousands of years- it doesn’t matter what technology we have- the rich 1% will steal all the wealth, and the bottom vast majority of ppl will live in poverty. it’s 50%-95% of the population in poverty depending on what era we lived in, but the masses are always poor and always living on the edge, so the wealthy can live in castles and mansions.
Hmmm, maybe. I think if the rich can fill all their labour needs through automation/robots, then the rest of us might either be uplifted or eliminated completely. Why risk leaving the poor around when they could start a revolution against you?
I suppose what might happen is that as more and more jobs become automated, the pressure grows for the wealth to be distributed more evenly. Maybe that happens and society becomes fairer, or maybe it’s successfully resisted and the now useless poor are finally just left to starve. But either way it might be the end of the class system as we know it.
“I suppose what might happen is that as more and more jobs become automated, the pressure grows for the wealth to be distributed more evenly”
—That’s a pipe dream- technology has advanced for thousands of years and we, the masses, are still slaves.
These ppl need cheap labour to produce their goods and run services for them. If we’re not used for cheap labour, then it’s for us to be their consumers- after all, they need schmucks to buy their goods.
Have you seen the movie, Soylent Green? That is what is going to happen.
” or maybe it’s successfully resisted and the now useless poor are finally just left to starve.”
–Yes and No. 1- a financial crash is coming, after the Nov election. And tons of ppl will be kicked out of their homes and ppl will starve. You’ll see it in the coming months. SO yes, more and more ppl will starve. but 2- they won’t let us ALL starve. No. You underestimate the rich’s psychopathy to use us poor masses as cannon fodder. Humans generate a tremendous amount of energy. We will likely be used as an energy source.