Will it ever stop, though? I mean, why even try if social mobility has been destroyed? If we're the permanent underclass now, then there's no point in struggling against any of this.
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The class consciousness from middle class lately has been funny to me. We always had poor people that were "permanent underclass" and middle class didn't care. They were not afraid of revolution or whatever we are afraid now.
If the bad scenario happens and 99% of the people becomes irrelevant to the economy, everybody will live their life's worried about basic necessities and smart hardworking people will be richer because your background or where you live or grew up doesn't matter.
Life is not fair. We should accept that AI companies and billionaires deserve to be aristocrats. They worked hard to create these conditions. In the end, it will trickle-down (this one I partly agree, irony aside)
> We always had poor people that were "permanent underclass"
I don't believe this at all. Social mobility definitely existed. It was at least possible to educate oneself and rise in society. Maybe the effort required wasn't equal for everybody, but it sure as hell wasn't impossible, because I've personally seen it happen.
That is fundamentally different from this supposedly K shaped economy world where it is literally impossible to rise. Education and talent don't matter anymore. It looks like the possible futures are either a post scarcity society or a cyberpunk dystopia.
> I don't believe this at all. Social mobility definitely existed. It was at least possible to educate oneself and rise in society. Maybe the effort required wasn't equal for everybody, but it sure as hell wasn't impossible, because I've personally seen it happen.
If you believe that, nothing will change much. It will still be possible, just the effort and luck required will be way bigger for the middle class to become rich. That's sad, but life is not fair and we are not entitled to social mobility the same way we are not entitled to housing, food and leisure.
If the cyberpunk dystopia happens, the trillionaires will live in the moon or Mars, and we will live here, maybe with shittier lifes, but that's on us. If we want to avoid that, we just need to become billionaires as well. Sadly, I'm too lazy for that, so I accept that it will never happen to me. I accepted that I will be "permanent underclass", because I don't see a reason for post scarcity to happen.