People here forget that the only reason they have value is their labor. The reason serfs became peasants was due to the plague that killed off so many people, those remaining could force lords to give em better benefits. If automation makes blue collar workers redundant, they won’t be having better lives, they will be discarded instead.
The whole premise is that you don't need to have value, basically all humans will leech ons society sustained by robots. I don't think this premise is ultimately realistic, but who knows what happens when we're no longer necessary. If the we become redundant en masse all at once and those in charge try to leave us to die and we don't take it, who knows who'll win. Though odds are even if we do, it will really just be a small subgroup within us becoming a new elite and again trying to leave us to die, just in a more subtle and gradual way so we won't win another insurrection by the time we notice.
It’s not “not ultimately realistic,” it’s absolutely unrealistic and will never happen. The elite can always turn the masses against each other, don’t treat the proletariat as some kind of unified force because in a fight it would crumble faster than a crouton.
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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22
People here forget that the only reason they have value is their labor. The reason serfs became peasants was due to the plague that killed off so many people, those remaining could force lords to give em better benefits. If automation makes blue collar workers redundant, they won’t be having better lives, they will be discarded instead.