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Yea, it seems every year we are moving closer and closer to some dark mixture of Manna, Fifteen Million Merits [1] and Elysium [2], where regular people no longer serve any purpose, and are simply warehoused somewhere to keep them out of the hair of the few rich elite.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifteen_Million_Merits

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysium_(film)




I don't see automated everything becoming possible in our lifetimes, instead I see dystopian societal collapse due to climate shifts being much more likely.




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