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Re:Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing the... by ardy42 on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @04:55PM (#18188798)
> At some point this boils over and the ultra wealthy are forced to redistribute wealth either through new political policy or by violent force.

There's also the dystopian possibility that automated forms of social control are developed neuter the ability of any kind of popular political movement from challenging the elites. That automation could be anything from systems of censorship, surveillance, and propaganda to police androids.

I think it makes some sense to deliberately cultivate and preserve IRL communities and networks that aren't very tech-mediated. By no means are they a panacea, but I think they have fewer vulnerabilities to tech-based automated control.

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Re:Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing the... by pbhjpbhj on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @08:48PM (#18190214)
>automated forms of social control are developed

Legalisation of drugs fits in here IMO, it's a salve for the people to keep them from mounting rebellions. Making hard drugs cheap and widely available probably is a relatively effective way of killing off a proportion of your poorest citizens without raising too great an alarm.

Things like VR could placate the people too, give them a fake "luxury existence" and they're less likely to rebel.

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Re:Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing the... by amoshi on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @05:24PM (#18189054)
I think this will happen. Brings to mind Google's secret project The Selfish Ledger, especially how it can be used for "Behavioural Sequencing"... [0]

As tech gets better it'll become easier to analyse the masses and make good predictions - how much can the masses put up with? How much further can we push them before the boiling point is reached?

[0] https://youtu.be/QDVVo14A_fo?t=439

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Re:Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing the... by core-questions on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @05:08PM (#18188904)
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Re:Uniqlo cut 90% of staff at one warehouse by replacing the... by whycombinater on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @06:27PM (#18189502)
"And just before the nuke hit, he reflected on what a great life he had. Under his watch, Skynet raised the percentage of female programmers to an even 50%."

Of course, some would see that that's actually a DYStopia, I mean, where are the trans?!

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