I agree I hope it's more star trek or that way of living than anything, true self aware thinking A.I. with all the knowledge in the world may decide that the worst of humans is greed and eliminate it thus giving all a utopia to live in where money has no value and creativity knowledge and freedom of being is what all strive fore. Like in some sy fy movies and books. Either way it will be out of our hands in a flash.

Well according to sy fy the only thing wrong with socialism is humans take out the greed factor and it works.

Just imagine how much solar, power line infrastructure and wind turbines Canada could have invested in if you we used the 12 billion spent on the pipe line.

I hope true A.I. will take over the governments and go full on socialism like in utopian sy fy books, where being rich means being a millionaire not a billionaire taking advantage of workers....The only thing wrong with socialism is the human factor. True A.I. is on it's way we can't stop it.

So you think Mad Max....I hope your wrong I hope for star trek. True A.I. if it ever happens it will eliminate the need more money which would eliminate billionaires that could and for sure would do what you propose. Unfortunately or fortunately depending on your outlook we don't have a choice, the future don't care about what you or me think it's coming I hope that since we outnumber the 1% we will be the winners.

U.B.I is inevitable and studies have shown it helps to create work, just not the work the super rich use you for, more of the creative stuff, anytime the super rich spend millions trying to convince people it's a bad idea the more you know it is something we should have. A.I will be taking almost all forms of work away from us, it's about time as a species we begin to look at our future it's either star trek or mad max...U.B.I. is star trek and True A.I. is the cure, we have enough resources for all if we could keep the 1% from hording it and taking advantage of workers.

When the super rich are spending million trying to convince the public it's scarry, that's when I think Utopia.

IF Putin calls on a nuclear strike I think one of his generals will take him out, they also have families that are safe....for now...but nobody is if nuclear weapons are used and they are very much aware of that.