@deprecated_ii Years back I found some people who came up with a decent solution to this issue. The called it "technostism"/"technism", or "Vyrdism". Of course it has been forgotten thanks to multiple factors, which is a shame because it seems like the most realistic solution to the automation issues we're dealing with now.
In a nutshell, people should group up and invest in the AI companies as a sort of free market alternative to UBI, and use the infinitely-increasing profits to buy their own robots, printers, etc. to become self-sufficient. I remember IvantheHeathen on youtube came up with a similar solution involving crypto or something instead of actual stocks.
(I would also recommend abolishing state-enforce unemployment - i.e. "minimum wage".)
Lately I've been contemplating the minarchy/anarchy divide, and sometimes I suspect it's a pointless distinction. For example, if I own a piece of land, and create rules there that I enforce (or pay for enforcement) myself, is that a state/government? Alternately, if a "state" has secession rights, is it really a state? What even is a state then anyway?
I could go on forever lol. I guess for now I'll say that I suspect we should abandon the whole anarchy/state distinction and focus on how much freedom of choice/self-government people have in a system/region. hngmjukytyu6rytrgfdsx.jpg
@xianc78@OldM8 (Sorry I'm late to this convo lol) I like this, it fits with my prediction/observation that high tech - especially ai - will dissolve centralized civilization as we know it. We'll probably be left to choose between techno-feudal smart cities w/ digital id (because how else will we know if you're a real human?) and more rustic libertarian small towns/vilages (w/ a few small free cities here and there) powered by self-sustaining high tech (3d-printers, exotic alt-tech, etc.) and irl interpersonal relationships. In other words, technology will force us to return to tradition, so to speak.