Because the end goal is for only a few thousand people to exist on the planet. Each of them owning thousands of square miles of land each and never interacting.
I think the robot series by Asimov has a planet like this.
Immortal people that never really interact, waited on but armies of robots and ai.
Because the end goal is for a free thousand people only to exist on the planet. Each of them owning thousands of square miles of land each and never interacting.
I just finished reading that a couple of weeks ago! That was Foundation and Earth, the 5th book in the series and you’re referring to the planet Solaria, one of if not the last populated Spacer planet.
It was kinda the ultimate libertarian paradise, everyone got a gigantic thousand mile square plot where they rule everything, and they severely limit their interactions with each other because to interact with someone else imposes on the other person’s “freedom” to avoid interaction. They even biohacked themselves into hermaphroditic reproduction because having a partner impedes one’s “freedom”. They have robots who do all of the work for them, and they strictly control the population to exactly 2000 adults, and any excess offspring are culled because only the adults are considered people. You only meet one adult Solarian in the book but it’s strongly implied that they’re all self-centered narcissistic assholes.
Also, shout-out to Asimov for initially putting in the work for using appropriate pronouns for both the agender(intersex?) Solarians and the Giain hive mind, but as soon as it makes sense for the story to cease using gender neutral pronouns the characters simply assign a gender to the young Solarian they adopt because the gender neutral pronouns are “too hard” for them. This from the same author who in Foundations Edge had a character who could read minds (more complicated than that but doesn’t matter) who became enamored in this one farmer girl because “she has such a smooth perfectly symetrical brain” and she’s written as this simple, unintelligent, doting and submissive woman to be the other characters partner. It really made the last two books hard to read
Why would they want to? Our fate, the fate of the planet even, doesn’t concern them. Supporting us just means less high score for them, and they simply cant have that.
The obscenely rich are there because they give no fucks about anyone other than themselves. You need people who care to implement a UBI. Thats hard-won progress at the best of times.
At that point why not implement UBI?
Because the end goal is for only a few thousand people to exist on the planet. Each of them owning thousands of square miles of land each and never interacting.
I think the robot series by Asimov has a planet like this.
Immortal people that never really interact, waited on but armies of robots and ai.
They want you dead.
I just finished reading that a couple of weeks ago! That was Foundation and Earth, the 5th book in the series and you’re referring to the planet Solaria, one of if not the last populated Spacer planet.
It was kinda the ultimate libertarian paradise, everyone got a gigantic thousand mile square plot where they rule everything, and they severely limit their interactions with each other because to interact with someone else imposes on the other person’s “freedom” to avoid interaction. They even biohacked themselves into hermaphroditic reproduction because having a partner impedes one’s “freedom”. They have robots who do all of the work for them, and they strictly control the population to exactly 2000 adults, and any excess offspring are culled because only the adults are considered people. You only meet one adult Solarian in the book but it’s strongly implied that they’re all self-centered narcissistic assholes.
Also, shout-out to Asimov for initially putting in the work for using appropriate pronouns for both the agender(intersex?) Solarians and the Giain hive mind, but as soon as it makes sense for the story to cease using gender neutral pronouns the characters simply assign a gender to the young Solarian they adopt because the gender neutral pronouns are “too hard” for them. This from the same author who in Foundations Edge had a character who could read minds (more complicated than that but doesn’t matter) who became enamored in this one farmer girl because “she has such a smooth perfectly symetrical brain” and she’s written as this simple, unintelligent, doting and submissive woman to be the other characters partner. It really made the last two books hard to read
From what I’ve read of his books, Asimov seemed like a pretty progressive person, but as much as he was, he was also a product of his time after all.
I mean. I dont wanna encourage them or anything but thar does sound pretty sweet.
Not worth losing every one of my fellow humans for, but still.
Why would they want to? Our fate, the fate of the planet even, doesn’t concern them. Supporting us just means less high score for them, and they simply cant have that.
The obscenely rich are there because they give no fucks about anyone other than themselves. You need people who care to implement a UBI. Thats hard-won progress at the best of times.