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submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Haha. No. Nothing so hopeful. The rich people will get even richer and everyone that used to be working class and middle class die a slow death.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Now I wander what would happen if only rich people would survive and I'm sure somebody has already written an sf book about that

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah. That's (arguably) the background scenario to Asimov's book "The Naked Sun" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun

Edit: Ooh, Django already gave a cooler link to the same: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/10729278

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Took me a while to track it down, but I think this is the book to which you were referring.

I make no cleans about the stances of this artist; I just saw this strip years ago.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Robots sure are long overdue