Binkie The Clown (is he Stinky's little brother?) has us all figured out...and it's HILARIOUS!
Binkie The Clown (3,193 posts)
I finally figured out what's going on.
"Some day automation and artificial intelligence will allow us all to live like kings in comfort and luxury." So goes the utopian dream. And you know what? It's true. Some day EVERYONE will live in the lap of luxury, with every need and desire fulfilled instantly. Here's how we get to that utopia:
Throughout all of history the rich have needed the poor. They needed peasants to grow their food, scrub their floors, cook their meals, haul away their trash, and do all those jobs necessary to keep civilization going. But with the rise of automation and artificial intelligence the time will come when the rich no longer need so many peasants. In time they may not need any peasants at all to keep civilization going. After all "civilization" has nothing to do with the peasants, and never has. The peasants are unwashed, uncultured, and living just outside the boundary of what the rich consider "civilization" anyway.
And just imagine how much better life will be for the rich when, finally, all the peasants are gone. They will have the roads, and parks, and museums, and yachts, and beaches all to themselves without all those smelly, troublesome peasants crowding up the place. We all know how annoying those peasants can be with their constants demands for "free stuff" and all their whining about not having jobs or health care. And there won't be any of that constant bellyaching about "the 1%", because the one percent (along with a small cadre of technological wizards and magicians) will have become the 100 percent after the old 99% goes extinct.
So how is this master plan implemented? Well, I suppose they might start by removing health care for the 99%, and then cutting way back on food by pricing them out of the market. Then new laws could be made creating new crimes that the rabble could be rounded up and locked away for. Or better yet, trouble makers, or even suspected trouble makers could just be shot on sight. It's not the whole solution, of course, but it's a good start. And you never know what kind of "perfectly natural" plague might sweep through the poor unfortunates who can't afford the $10,000 a dose vaccine against it.
So you see, it's not about the rich getting more money and power, it's about the rich getting ALL the money and ALL the power, and then simply allowing 99% to fade away. The rich not only want to live in gated communities, they want to live in a gated planet where no poor are allowed.
And so, you see, the grand utopia of everyone living in luxury is not only possible, we are well on way to achieving it. Good times!
Damn Binkie, you weren't supposed TO FIND OUT!!!
How will we ever implement our nefarious plans with a genius like you on the left?
