You’re kinda describing a “doll house” from Cyberpunk 2077, except it’s ai controlled humans that get their memories wiped performing the service instead of a vr headset

Spoken like a true centrist.

From what I’m reading it seems like you think helping people is a bad thing.

Sickening but not suprising, considering the vast majority still think Captialism is the best method and profit farming is considered “clever business”.

When are we going to change that? It’s been a while, like 600BC, but we managed just fine for tens of thousands of years before minted coin.

They’re busy planning their attacks on yachts. But seriously, how come wild animals are doing more to fight the power? We’re being out-based by fuckin orcas and goats.

It wasn’t a human being or someones beloved dog, so I’m not surprised.

What counts as “a bunch of other people” because fascists will famously eradicate entire families that go against the grain.

Not just their land, but their ideas of “freedom”, “equality”, and “democracy”. Europeans didn’t even know those words until the French Missionaries in the late 1600’s were met with the Indigenous Critique, and how Indigenous Americans had equal rights for men and women, were free to disobey arbitrary authority, had a conglomerate of states that conveined in a “federal” central committee, and could impeach their rulers. Of course, so-called “Enlightenment” philosophers who were just rich trust-fund babies stole that idea to create America and call themselves “Enlightened Thinkers” as if they came up with it themselves, while simultaneously degrading the Indigenous Critique by calling them “savages” who were “less advanced” than Europeans based on evidence they dreamed up while staring at a fireplace (I’m look at you Rousseu and Hobbes), stealing Indigenous politics as their own, and thanking them with ethnic cleansing.

Fuck Europeans.

European nobility predates writing?

Also if you were actually aware of human history before writing, you’d know we had classless urban environments inhabiting hundreds of thousands without any evidence of hierarchy or top -down management, through systems of credit in the absence of money. You’d be more accurate to say that, since before the invention of writing (whatever that means), we were able to construct societies without a ruling class. Question is, what happened? How did we lose touch with that? How did the abstract concept of ‘wealth’ be able to be converted into power over people? My own opinion is it started around 600BCE when coin was used to pay armies for violent conquests, making money synonymous with violence and dominion.

It’s hard being married to an archaeologist that’s confronted with evidence that, for most of human history and societies, there wasn’t a ruling class. Why then do we agree to a rolling class, knowing full well the violence and instability it causes?

How do we tax the rich?

They’ll be outnumbered after the boomers are gone. They’ll either have to adapt, hide back in the shadows, or go full extremist.