• DeepGradientAscent@programming.dev
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    1 year ago

    There is a danger. The select few of “us” who are “more equal” will become “them”.

    How do you think slavery sustains itself? A few slaves get to become slave-masters when the old masters die.

    I guess it boils down to the age old questions of what is the value of a human life, and who gets to decide what laws we base upon the answer to the first question.

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      1 year ago

      What I meant was that “they” can not just simply erase “us” from existence once we stop providing them enough value, I believe in a revolution of some kind if such practices were to be tried.

      Though I do not believe it would be rational nor beneficial for the elites at the first place, I was just pointing out that there is little chance of that happening.