Everyone will still have to pay no matter how rich they are. The owner class and certain high skill workers like doctors, surgeons, lawyers, judges, engineers, military generals, etc will be the only ones who can afford anything worthwhile like an education or medical treatment. The working class will mostly get to work in manual labor that isn’t easy to automate until they die from a preventable illness. However, in that scenario, that state of affairs probably won’t last long. Climate change is probably going to get us sooner rather than later and the billionaires will retreat to their apocalypse bunkers.
Yeah, for most of the working class, money will be a constant struggle to make ends meet. For the rich, money will be an id card, a hall pass, or arcade tickets, proof that you belong and deserve your place in the hierarchy. The extraction of value from the workers’ labor will of course be how society will have anything for the owner class to benefit from and enjoy.
People won’t see the difference from today clearly though. Americans will say they are doing everything right, but they can’t seem to make a living. The media will say the economy’s great but it’s not lifting all boats. People will be accused of not wanting to work when all they do is work.
Generations of young people will probably inherent or be given smart devices from past generations, so they’ll have picked up how to text. For many people, education might be limited to what you can learn through your monthly free tokens for AI generated responses to questions. There will be cool brain chips to download lessons for private school students, so there is that.
Everyone will still have to pay no matter how rich they are. The owner class and certain high skill workers like doctors, surgeons, lawyers, judges, engineers, military generals, etc will be the only ones who can afford anything worthwhile like an education or medical treatment. The working class will mostly get to work in manual labor that isn’t easy to automate until they die from a preventable illness. However, in that scenario, that state of affairs probably won’t last long. Climate change is probably going to get us sooner rather than later and the billionaires will retreat to their apocalypse bunkers.
True, but when the cost of living is regressive, the working class is going to feel it more – a lot more.
Yeah, for most of the working class, money will be a constant struggle to make ends meet. For the rich, money will be an id card, a hall pass, or arcade tickets, proof that you belong and deserve your place in the hierarchy. The extraction of value from the workers’ labor will of course be how society will have anything for the owner class to benefit from and enjoy.
People won’t see the difference from today clearly though. Americans will say they are doing everything right, but they can’t seem to make a living. The media will say the economy’s great but it’s not lifting all boats. People will be accused of not wanting to work when all they do is work.
Generations of young people will probably inherent or be given smart devices from past generations, so they’ll have picked up how to text. For many people, education might be limited to what you can learn through your monthly free tokens for AI generated responses to questions. There will be cool brain chips to download lessons for private school students, so there is that.