Whether big or small. We all have that one thing from Scifi we wished were real. I’d love to see a cool underground city with like a SkyDome or a space hotel for instance.

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    Sure, but have you considered that this would loosen the hold capitalism has on the wage slaves? Won’t someone think of the shareholders‽

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      At best it would prop up capitalism until we can replace it with something better.

      It’s literally just giving people more money to shove into the capitalist system. You don’t change a system by feeding it.

      I won’t say it’s a bad thing… but it’s not a solution. It’s a stop gap.

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        UBI will be necessary when the combination of AI and robotics creates a permanent 35+% unemployment rate. We will have to institute UBI, or reduce the population by that much. Which objective will each party choose to support, and how will they accomplish it?

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        It’s probably a necessary step towards dismantling the monetary system entirely, though.

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            Is there a specific mention of that, or just something people assume? I googled a single reddit thread, which clearly makes me an expert (/s), and it seemed as though money was really just kind of a fuzzy concept up until they declared they didn’t use money sometime around Star Trek 4.

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      Exactly, what are those useless sociopaths supposed to be doing now? Actual labor? Come on…!