@kleeposting@CallunaVulgaria Believe it or not I read once on some random blog a woman was desperate because she found out her husband was cheating at the time she got pregnant and now she wasn’t sure the baby was hers 🤣
Cost of things and labor going to zero and the plebs benefitting from it are two quite separate ideas.
When the oligarchs have infinite resources as you suggest, they won’t need the plebs anymore—their zillions of robots will produce everything they need and physically defend them from any revolutionary attempt.
Money and power will buy them more land and resources. A starving and shrinking plebs population will only serve them well.
@vodean55@brivael Sure. What is your excuse for the difference between today’s North Korea and South Korea, which started from the same place just a few decades ago?
If you exclude yourself but have touched at least one other person in your life (you have), many of their atoms are several billion years old, having been cooked in the middle of some star in our galaxy eons ago.
Come to think of it, the same is true of virtually everything you've ever touched.
@TylerAlterman Clarity is the obvious chilling choice, but Clear could be an even better choice because of its double meaning as adjective and verb (and because it’s less obvious as a category to name anything)