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Pyro as Bill said:
Teeqoz said:

Yeah whoops, forgot about that. It's completely feasible for the vast majority of the human population to be scientists and programmers.

 

Wait...

No offence but I'll take the Invisible Hand over a socialist's crystal ball and tarot cards.

I'm all for the invisible hand, that's what is pushing us towards UBI - it isn't viable for anyone, including the people at the top - to have an economy where most of the population is outside of the labour force and don't have any money, and thus can't afford goods. Doesn't matter if the rich can produce shittonnes of stuff cheaply thanks to automation and AI if no one can buy things. Hence why I believe society will be inevitably pushed towards a system akin to UBI. This has nothing to do with socialism, it's just the inevitable end game of mass automation and AI in a capitalistic economy.

 

Go invisible hand.