Or to put it another way, it would be much harder for a class of true hikkikomori to emerge in developing world. There simply isn’t enough fat in the infrastructure to carry them for very long, or maintain them in psychological quasi-stability with video games.
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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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