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Meh, with automation and AI we'll soon enough easily be able to provide everyone with basic things like food, water, healthcare and education (to the degree that we see a point in education, depends how good that AI is, but i suspect we'd always want a certain degree of education anyway) at little to no cost. We don't need (nor want) collectivisation to achieve that. It's just a natural development of technology.

At that point, people can survive doing whatever they please, but if you want to go any further, you'll have to get those things on your own. You won't get your video games for free.

But again, we come back to the issue of how good AI becomes. At some point, any human productivity will be basically worthless as no one will be able to compete with computers and robots when it comes to efficiency, precision and nearly any other measure as well. How you avoid huge economic inequality in a society like that, now that's another issue entirely. Do I think socialism (or something like it) might be a part of the solution to that issue? Yes. It's arrogant to think that modern civilisation has reached the penultimate point of ideological and economical systems. Our system has existed for just a bit more than over 200 years. That's nothing in the history of mankind. Many civilisations prior to our own existed for millenia but were ultimately replaced or broken up. To expect that there will never again be major changes, especially in this day and age of rapid development and change is crazy.

Last edited by Teeqoz - on 08 February 2018