The massive deflationary pressures on wages and people's free time will keep accelerating until something cracks really badly, like a key bone in an arthritic body.
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When this happens, I guess we'll find out where our new politics are headed. Until then, there is very little to even say.
Most of this shall pass, potentially very soon.
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We are well into the "elites bail out and try to run away with the bag" stage of our society.
Elites always forget that the bag has a hole in the bottom and they need the people they're stealing it from to fill it.
They will break their own foundations in their lust for more.
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Totalitarian downward pressures aren't just a sign of budding technocratic dystopia, but also a sign that elites have milked the cows too aggressively and are starting to get desperate.
Highly unlikely that we are still living in this same society in a few decades.
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Automation can cover a lot of sins, but the mechanisms of social oppression always rely on the same underlying principle: the oppressed must provide.
When you take away their very ability to do that, the system shakes itself apart.
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First slowly, then very, very rapidly.
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