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[deleted] t1_j278ldm wrote

Reply to comment by PassengerSad9918 in How are we feeling about a possible UBI? by theshadowturtle

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PassengerSad9918 t1_j27cdn5 wrote

To put it plainly, if everyone is moving up, eventually, everyone is up. New wealth and resources would have to be continually and exponentially be used to allow for people's lifestyle's to keep improving.

That is of course if we continue to classify wealth and value the same way we do today.

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[deleted] t1_j27dak3 wrote

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PassengerSad9918 t1_j27etuo wrote

Nobody said anything about winner or losers.

To put it differently, if everyone is a winner that is not a problem, the problem is the trophies have to come out of somewhere, and if everyone can keep getting the next trophy, well then, we might run out of resources to keep making trophies.

It is in my view, the main problem with capitalism, sustainability. That is, unless we colonize the stars.

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[deleted] t1_j27fzrz wrote

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reconditedreams t1_j27xrt7 wrote

It's definitely not happening now. All we have are a handful of research stations which require an absurd amount of resources flown up from Earth. We don't have anything even close to sustainable space operations like fuel synthesis, mining, or factories in space.

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