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needs more post-scarcity, Star Trek Federation style, Socialist United Europe content.
How the fuck are we gonna get to post scarcity when a couple thousand individuals are hoarding all the wealth?
We could live in a post scarcity society right now, hell, we could be decades deep in it by now.
But regardless of when we get there, before we do we'll have to claw all the wealth from the gluttonous human personifications of dragons first.
It's not just gonna happen some day, because all the wealthiest humans are fighting against it. So we need to actually fight for it
Let's just look at the piles of loot that the Dragons are sleeping on as bank accounts. One day, we will decide to access those bank accounts, and put them to good use.
The ultra wealthy don't have billions just sitting in their bank accounts. That much wealth is largely tied up in the unrealized gains of non-liquid assets (stocks, real estate, etc.).
So it's basically imaginary wealth, but unfortunately banks will loan them money based on the imaginary wealth.
Then they shouldn't mind if we take their "non-existent" money, and redistribute it to their victims.
I dunno if you're referencing The Fable of the Dragon Tyrant or if you just happened to have a similar train of thought as it's author.
We wouldn't even need to do that...
Money is an abstract concept that would fundamentally change in a post scarcity world.
If enough people said money doesn't matter, the number tied to bank accounts stop mattering.
Musk could have 50 trillion dollars, but those dollars are only worth what we agree they are. We could just say their worth zero and Musk doesn't have rights to anything he "owns". It's literally that easy.
The wealthy don't abide by the social contract, yet you're so stuck on it you don't understand the only thing binding us to the parts the wealthy exploit, is ourselves and we can just fucking stop.