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We've been having market capitalism and IA for YEARS, why are we still having less and less buying power, life expectancy, healthcare access and so on?
Because decay is a natural state of the universe.
Why billionaires will let that happens under capitalism if that benefits them? You can't fix capitalism, it works perfectly for people that owns the capital.
wtf you talking about the world is bigger than republican and democrats and you have countries where religion is not that big with signs of the problems of late stage capitalism.
You can't have all people smart in capitalism without free good education, if education is a commodity the poor people become ignorant and easier to manipulate by the people who own the capital and they will manipulate them to vote for what is best for the capital. You can remove religion and the same problem will continue, you only solve people voting with the ass with education and that is really difficult within capitalism, like I said before billionaires will not let that happens.
To clarify here, your example is what actually happens under capitalism. Literally, not figuratively. F(L)OSS is pretty anarchic/communist in nature.
Hypothetically, maybe, however, the current hyper-commercial capitalism shows no signs of allowing UBI or passing on any benefit from AI and other automation to workers. There's been a complete disconnect between productivity and worker compensation since the 70s, with the capital class pocketing every penny of the difference.
Indeed. I really wish that evidence showed that to be the case, instead, it's the fallacy that Chicago School economics falls for. Humans are NOT rational actors, at least, not all the time. There are also anti-social actors involved attempting to game the system for their benefit at others' expense. Lots of things to account for where current economic systems abjectly fail to provide a fair and equitable society, often intentionally so.
How do you propose doing that? Murdering them en masse?
Why are you saying that?
ooo. i like a lot of what you're saying, except that i think the market capitalism part should be less vital. i'm more in favor of a resource based economy which is overseen by AI. markets would become more of a hobbyist endeavor. some people need to have a little bit more than others and can't help but express their type A personalities, so the markets are there for them to feel like they earned a little more than other people, but without the ability to become billionaires.
Also, UBI seems like a transitional phase solution. in a well regulated resource based economy, currency eventually becomes a vestigial appendage. i mean, it's just a middle man of exchange now, and we're only exchanging things because we can't figure out how to distribute necessary commodities and incentivize people. i believe in a resource based economy where almost all needs are met and education in humanities is emphasized, people will be happy to do their 2.5 hours of weekly labor to keep a utopian system running.