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[–] 5 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Okay I’m gonna play devil’s advocate, it’s worrying because we are not adapting our system.

I’ve always thought over population is a big issue but when I found out how our social security is intentionally a Ponzi scheme, it made me very worried.

I don’t give two shits about the replacement theory but I’m worried that I am getting paid shit throughout my adult life since labour isn’t expensive yet but when if I need to retire, labour could become super expensive.

Of course a sane society would just use all the excess wealth today to invest in automation but if we were sane, a lot of things would be better.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    Yeah I fully expect not to receive a state pension in the UK, the Ponzi-like economics of it just don’t work for an aging population with a falling birth rate.

    The problem is that the government which brings in sustainability measures around this will be electorally annihilated for a generation at least, so the can keeps getting kicked down the road and the likelihood of events forcing a change rather than an orderly change in plenty of time increases.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Even if AI doesn't reach the highs of science fiction, it will allow one person to do the work of many. Labor prices will probably keep going down for decades.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    An absolutely disgusting thought.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    Productivity has been going up forever. Why is that disgusting now?

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