Wealth distribution

[Montmorency]

Wanna the join the legions of people who have predicted the end of humanity?

Woah, hey, why the false dichotomy between doomsday and 'humanity shall prosper forever'?

There's plenty of evidence showing that things might just get rough in the future, and in fact the future may transform human societies into something scarcely imaginable to ourselves, but on the basis of the unique developments of the past few millennia you feel confident predicting that the existence of humanity itself is a panacea to humanity's problems.

Wishful thinking on your part, I'm afraid. You need more evidence than vague allusions to past problems overcome. Interestingly though, you don't note that the old problems are precisely what the new problems threaten to recapitulate. For all we know, there could be a cyclical fate awaiting us, or even something totally in the Z dimension...

[Kagemusha]

It is just the everlasting cycle of history. Natural capitalism happens, in other words all the assets end up to few. Once those assets are in too few hands, revolution happens. After revolution aggression from the winning party towards outside the society at hand and then war happens. After the war population focus is at rebuilding and investing in next generation, while the next generation follows those values, the generation after that questions the earlier values and turns towards more individual ones and again the path is set similar to last cycle. Nothing new under the stars.

[HoreTore]

Woah, hey, why the false dichotomy between doomsday and 'humanity shall prosper forever'?

There's plenty of evidence showing that things might just get rough in the future, and in fact the future may transform human societies into something scarcely imaginable to ourselves, but on the basis of the unique developments of the past few millennia you feel confident predicting that the existence of humanity itself is a panacea to humanity's problems.

Wishful thinking on your part, I'm afraid. You need more evidence than vague allusions to past problems overcome. Interestingly though, you don't note that the old problems are precisely what the new problems threaten to recapitulate. For all we know, there could be a cyclical fate awaiting us, or even something totally in the Z dimension...

So.....

Automation will make society as we know it collapse?

[Montmorency]

No, but any confluence of a spike in state authoritarianism and corporatism, climate disruption and rising sea levels and an associated scarcity of natural resources, national tensions, the rise of widespread nano-or-neuro-technology, the economic stagnation of key industries, and so on, could.

The point being, your blithe complacency is worrying.

[HoreTore]

No, but any confluence of a spike in state authoritarianism and corporatism, climate disruption and rising sea levels and an associated scarcity of natural resources, national tensions, the rise of widespread nano-or-neuro-technology, the economic stagnation of key industries, and so on, could.

The point being, your blithe complacency is worrying.

In 50 years, if we're still both here and civilization is still around, first round is one me.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

So.....

Automation will make society as we know it collapse?

Evolve, not collapse.