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IluvBsissa OP t1_ja7hdj1 wrote

Reply to comment by Desperate_Ad_5563 in "But what would people do when all jobs get automated ?" Ask the Aristocrats. by IluvBsissa

You should read "The Dawn of Everything" from David Graeber, where he shows that many civilizations managed to shift from authoritarian kingdoms to egalitarian societies in the past. The world is what we make of it, nothing is inevitable.

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basilgello t1_ja7knoq wrote

They shifted because the quantitative and qualitative progress (i.e growth of population and introduction of industry) changed the structure of manufacturing and consume. Science and spare time added a scale to this progression. But social revolutions came when masses felt absolutely hopeless and nothing to lose. That made the elites to introduce social guarantees, minimum wage etc. If the majority is sheeple, the rulers have no incentive to develop the country except the military power. Here is what we see in modern Russia, for example.

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IluvBsissa OP t1_ja7qwzl wrote

No, the author mentions civilizations from thousands of years before our era, not pre-industrial times.

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BlueShipman t1_jaad0es wrote

>Here is what we see in modern USA, for example.

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Spire_Citron t1_jab5md1 wrote

Yup. People seem to view rising inequality as inevitable, but we got to where we are now somehow.

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