Heads up, the OP (ikt/eyekaytee) is extremely racist towards Aboriginal Australians and Muslims, as well as being a Zionist who supports the genocide in Gaza.
Once a fully-automated economy comes to fruition (or at least the perception of one), billionaires think they are the only individuals enlightened and valuable enough to be worthy of its boons. Once they no longer need our labor or our consumption, we are just chaff.
The desalination plant will be there and produce just enough water that only some people will die of thirst so that the rest are incentivised to toil endlessly in said desalination plant for example.
Bcs that’s not how you maintain power, just how you maintain supply.
Supply/scarcity isn’t the issue. It’s that the bots aren’t owned by ‘the people’ who coincidentally desperately need drinking water. Increasing supply just makes them less desperate, which is bad for fair negotiations.
Paywalling drinking water is a business investment for private gain.
Why doesn’t the larger class simply eat the smaller one?
Idk.
I really don’t.
(To add the obvious context: severe dwindling of drinking water supply in some countries around the world will happen due to climate change. Migrations in those cases are the obvious consequences since we won’t build them desalination plants.)
Why not use them to build a desalination plant?
Heads up, the OP (ikt/eyekaytee) is extremely racist towards Aboriginal Australians and Muslims, as well as being a Zionist who supports the genocide in Gaza.
Once a fully-automated economy comes to fruition (or at least the perception of one), billionaires think they are the only individuals enlightened and valuable enough to be worthy of its boons. Once they no longer need our labor or our consumption, we are just chaff.
Power is no fun without someone to wield it over.
They need resistance to feel powerful. God mode is boring.
Imagine killing off the poor essentially making the billionaires middle class.
Profit motives.
The desalination plant will be there and produce just enough water that only some people will die of thirst so that the rest are incentivised to toil endlessly in said desalination plant for example.
This is how our economy works.
Bcs that’s not how you maintain power, just how you maintain supply.
Supply/scarcity isn’t the issue. It’s that the bots aren’t owned by ‘the people’ who coincidentally desperately need drinking water. Increasing supply just makes them less desperate, which is bad for fair negotiations.
Paywalling drinking water is a business investment for private gain.
Why doesn’t the larger class simply eat the smaller one?
Idk.
I really don’t.
(To add the obvious context: severe dwindling of drinking water supply in some countries around the world will happen due to climate change. Migrations in those cases are the obvious consequences since we won’t build them desalination plants.)