Reasons to be somewhat hopeful

[DANAT4T]

Technology will replace workers. This will give more freedom to people. The freedom is individual but individual liberty means that people can form groups with who they want to. Technology has also found ways of breeding animals. Therefore more people will have more pets. Looks like we won't be having "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep".
FREEDOM IS COMING!

[GL_in_Lyrics]

You might be right.... especially the part about society not needing as many (human) workers.

Society is based upon the concept that children are meant to go to school and learn how to serve society. Society's opinion - which I happen to think is *somewhat* true - is that sex and romantic relationships can only interfere with, and disturb, that progress.

So if humans are more free from these institutions, they'll need more to do. They'll become bored. And surely, the truth of child sexuality will rear its way out of the woodwork.

[OnionPetal]

Technology will replace workers. This will give more freedom to people. [...]

Not financial freedom, if people can't find jobs. Unless the tech overlords who enriched themselves with capitalism, suddenly turn socialist and decide to redistribute their wealth to the unemployed masses, because they're just so nice!

[The dude]

Technology will replace workers. This will give more freedom to people. [...]

Not financial freedom, if people can't find jobs. Unless the tech overlords who enriched themselves with capitalism, suddenly turn socialist and decide to redistribute their wealth to the unemployed masses, because they're just so nice!

Not because anyone is nice, but for the same reason that Rome had the bread and games policy in the city: You really do not want a lot of unemployed people starving and bored, with nothing else to do but to riot and plot political mischief.

[OnionPetal]

Technology will replace workers. This will give more freedom to people. [...]

Not financial freedom, if people can't find jobs. Unless the tech overlords who enriched themselves with capitalism, suddenly turn socialist and decide to redistribute their wealth to the unemployed masses, because they're just so nice!

Not because anyone is nice, but for the same reason that Rome had the bread and games policy in the city: You really do not want a lot of unemployed people starving and bored, with nothing else to do but to riot and plot political mischief.

Yeah, that makes sense. Still, I wonder how long it will take for future tech overlords to find a 'final solution' to the peasant problem

I mean, they're building (not so) secret bunkers. A lot of them are known anti-humanists. As long as peasants exist, they will be viewed as a threat. So I still won't trust any billionaires who promise we'll have it better under techno-feudalism. Even Elon Musk warned that the pictures we're seeing of a Utopian AI-driven future is a 'best case scenario.' There are a lot of dystopian alternative scenarios that are also possible.

It is extremely likely that if we depended on Big Tech for our 'universal basic income,' then those benefits would be contingent on following their Terms of Service, which would constantly surveil us, and dictate the rules of how we can live. They might even require digital implants for identity and compliance monitoring. It could potentially be the biggest restriction on freedom in all of humanity.

[CantChainTheSpirit]

Hopefully we can find our way into a map utopia with our free time.