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DeltaV-Mzero t1_j7bamyk wrote

They are actually a model for where the general population will head long term, if we are at least allowed enough land to live on.

Most humans won’t have anything to offer the capital / property owners in terms of labor value

Which means they don’t get paid, and can’t buy things

Which kicks the ladder out from under nearly every worker industry, they’re all built to make money from consumers

What’s left after the economy evaporates will be automated, vertical supply chains feeding the whims of the very elite rich.

The rest of us will have no way to participate, nothing of value to trade. But there’ll be so many of us that a new, entirely separate, unregulated economy will form.

It’ll be based around subsistence and low tech survival, as it’ll have to function on materials which the elite capital class have no interest in.

So…. With or without the religious angle, a good life will look a lot like an Amish life

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