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Originally Posted by maplehurry
"More free", but also more uncertainty in getting paid.
We can also become more free if everyone's got free food and housing, except every government that attempted it on a scale larger than a small village has failed miserably.
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Well that's generally because in the past society NEEDED most of it's people working productively and diligently in order to manufacture goods and produce food and provide services. But what happens when the human element becomes disinvested from actual productivity?
It seems to me that you can either have Star Trek style socialism where the majority of the populace would be on replicator ration card welfare, or extreme Darwinism where the majority of the populace is left to starve...at which point you had better be ready to keep lots of gas drones on hands in case they start bread rioting.