Wealth distribution

[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.