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Originally Posted by John Elwin
I find it ironic that as the world fills up with more & more people it doesn't need, some are busy devising the means for fewer of them to actually have to do anything.
What will they do with all the spare time? Sit around chatting about 'the good old days'?
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Nah, they can all become millionaire "influencers" on Youtube.
Then all of the countries involved in the WWW can claim increased GDP and the well established cycle of borrowing today to keep "the economy" going and "paying back" in the future when "inflation" has reduced the value of what is paid back can continue for a few more decades - maybe a generation or two.
What happens after that? Who knows?
Does anyone alive today (and of an age to have enough knowledge and experience to understand the issues) actually care? If so, why? They would need to be incredibly influential to document today what the "at risk" generations will only start to recognise in 30 or 40 years from now.
And, if our current experiences with that sort of social philosophy gap is any form of guidance, they will probably be wrong in the detail.
Whether they will by chance have managed to stumble upon a persuasive argument for social control that kicks the whole political management thing and economic doom a further century into the future ... will be of no interest to me by then!