Instead of an extravagant lifestyle only for a small few as a result of their intercepting and concentrating the majority of the labor output, all people could live a similarly extravagant lifestyle if the system were to change entirely.
It would require a massive shift, including off-world resource acquisition and hugely increased energy generation as the amount of both required for every person alive to live in luxury vastly exceeds that which is available on earth, but it’s not impossible to complete without causing others to suffer. That’s just the easy route for the planet’s wealthy sociopaths.
I can only think of one: massive inflation à la 2008 Zimbabwe. They printed a 100 trillion dollar bill by the end of that one, so nearly everyone was a trillionaire.
Now they’re in an entirely new hyperinflation crisis, but it’s nowhere near the 89.7 sextillion percent year-on-year inflation rate they saw at the first’s peak.
Edit: fucking hell, they’re releasing yet another currency: the Zimbabwean ZiG. IYKYK
It doesn’t have to be, but those are the incentives we have set up
I think I know what you might be suggesting.
Instead of an extravagant lifestyle only for a small few as a result of their intercepting and concentrating the majority of the labor output, all people could live a similarly extravagant lifestyle if the system were to change entirely.
It would require a massive shift, including off-world resource acquisition and hugely increased energy generation as the amount of both required for every person alive to live in luxury vastly exceeds that which is available on earth, but it’s not impossible to complete without causing others to suffer. That’s just the easy route for the planet’s wealthy sociopaths.
really curious how you think someone could obtain a trillion dollars without exploiting others
I can only think of one: massive inflation à la 2008 Zimbabwe. They printed a 100 trillion dollar bill by the end of that one, so nearly everyone was a trillionaire.
Now they’re in an entirely new hyperinflation crisis, but it’s nowhere near the 89.7 sextillion percent year-on-year inflation rate they saw at the first’s peak.
Edit: fucking hell, they’re releasing yet another currency: the Zimbabwean ZiG. IYKYK
That does causes suffering tho, and it’s not a massive wealth anymore.