There is more of a sense of being a pawn/npc in consequential games of powerful, which are easier to simply tolerate as a low-impact annoyance tax in developing world. Basic tradeoff is higher basic standard of living, but lower *relative* agency over life terms and conditions.
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This is the backdrop against which AI/robot stuff must be considered. Human-NPCs being replaced were promised a certain TOS lifestyle at a certain agency-price. There’s new work they could do, but manufactured haplessness/sense of TOS-betrayal makes them mostly capable of anger.
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Apply working:dependent population logic to them. Working population + technology will now need to support retirees, children... and angry/hapless no-longer-needed NPCs whose best-case life outcome now is safety-net+family-dependency+hikkikomori pleasures.
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This logic puts a new interpretation on idea of UBI. It is best viewed as a “free future hikkikomori before they get so mad they burn everything down” move. Renegotiate the basic social contract to be more like the developing world. You get less, but in a form you control more.
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This overall convergent pattern of evolution in developed and developing world points to a particular kind of human condition. Elites cheaply controlling masses of human NPCs, robots, and AIs, offering much less material plenty than before (airline amenities anyone?) in return.
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This is important: BOTH developed and developing worlds are converging to a new asymptote. It’s a mistake to think that either 1st world is going 3rd world or 3rd world is going 1st. Both are going 2nd world (now we finally know what 2nd world actually is: software-eaten world!)
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You can either join this budget airline of a civilizational path, or make the reverse tradeoff of industrial modernity: more agency, less stuff. Climate action pressures will simply add gradually increasing stress in this direction.
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