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minus-squareJeeBaiChow@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 days agoThe billions spent chasing these unicorns could be so much better used to lift communities out of poverty and give clean water and housing to thousands. Our priorities are fucked.
minus-squareJennyLaFae@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 days agoWe already have the technology and resources for everyone to live in a post scarcity society.
minus-squareAux@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 days agoBut everyone doesn’t want to live in a post-scarcity society. Lack of survival challenge leads to mental degradation.
minus-squareRobotZap10000@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·6 days agoBut where are we supposed to find dirt-cheap labor if we eradicate poverty?! Won’t someone think of the shareholders?
The billions spent chasing these unicorns could be so much better used to lift communities out of poverty and give clean water and housing to thousands. Our priorities are fucked.
We already have the technology and resources for everyone to live in a post scarcity society.
But everyone doesn’t want to live in a post-scarcity society. Lack of survival challenge leads to mental degradation.
But where are we supposed to find dirt-cheap labor if we eradicate poverty?! Won’t someone think of the shareholders?
And yet…