Left unchecked, the transition to an automated labor force could see the rich aggregate a critical mass of financial and political capital, with those without means falling deeper into poverty without solvent social safety nets.
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Couple automation with a pandemic that prohibits human proximity and the question arrises: How many jobs will never return an a #postdemic world?
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The microeconomic becomes the macroeconomic: Individuals deprived on wages (many who already face debt liabilities) are forced to collect -instead of contribute to- social programs; states will see a reduction in tax revenue decreasing the long-term solvency these programs.
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To complicate matters, a plutocratic hostility based on a cult of automation arrises from the new-money billionaire class who have ingrained and ingratiated themselves with governments through infrastructure and defense contracts. They now command the wealth of nations.

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That 5th-richest-person @elonmusk claims to "favor" a UBI a system (that give people money "for free"), and a week later ignorantly meme-mock the underlying premise of Marx's Das Kapital is a stunning admission of how little history (and how much privilege) these men know.
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So what does this all mean?
A quick transition from one economic system to the next is tremulous without careful planning. In fact, Marx and Engles had a whole concept about the "in between" phase between capitalism and communism.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dictatorship_of_the_proletariat
@automationomics is, at its core, about creating a new line of inquiry that seeks to map the transition (and intermediate steps) to a post-scarcity world that fundamentally centers individuals, while also accounting for intergenerational rights and historical marginalization.
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It won't be easy, and we may get things wrong, but if we are able to map out a desired end-state on Earth, I believe we can create a compelling shared vision with enough critical mass to make the journey to become a socio-technological civilization that leaves no one behind.
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