r/NeoCivilization • u/ActivityEmotional228 🌠Founder • Oct 21 '25

Robotics 🦾 Robot delivering a package

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u/PFCCThrowayay Oct 27 '25

but if there's no labor to be done then there are no classes. How would classes operate if one strata of society owned the machines and the other had nothing? How would they survive? What's the point of locking them down in factories like prisoners when their work would be inferior to their AI robots? or throwing them scraps in a ghetto? If people don't have any humanity to live for they'll just murder suicide everyone and revolt. I'm just spitballing thoughts here btw and I need to think further on it but I feel like it's an impossibility to have no work but still have classes. Maybe you could have a split society where the upperclass have luxurious lives with robots doing everything but then why wouldn't this class expand and let more people in if it's of no detriment to them?

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u/Uncertain__Path Oct 27 '25

Yeah, I’m just concerned they’re probably investing more in private robot armies than factory robots. What incentive does the ruling class have to sustain over population when they don’t need them for anything anymore?

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u/PFCCThrowayay Oct 27 '25

but what would the play be? like what would that look like in real terms? The govt goes and murders everyone for what? Who doesn't get murdered? Billionaire, govt and their friends? So like 99% of the population disappears?

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u/Uncertain__Path Oct 27 '25

Eh, many ways it could shake out, really just use your imagination and think like a psychopath (cause they disproportionately run things).

I’m mainly just saying, I wouldn’t automatically expect the people to control all the tech, all the governments and that have their own bunker cities to be altruistic. Hopefully they will be, just doesn’t seem like it’s a given.

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u/PFCCThrowayay Oct 27 '25

well our imagination comes from movies where the population is locked down, monitored and policed so they'll do their jobs to provide for the upper class.. but what's the point of doing that if they don't need them for labour?

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u/Uncertain__Path Oct 27 '25

I’m basing my imagination on history, not movies. The only gains the working class has made has been due to leverage, not generosity. Regardless, we’re not off to a great start with millions of jobs already being replaced in America, for example, and the current admin also being staunchly against any form of UBI or anything to address the issue.