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>>2629644
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A sufficiently advanced civilization will provide a base level of income to all citizens, as well as the opportunity to advance for those who want to. There would be honor based ranking systems for social prestige and additional wealth and advanced experiences for those who contribute more

But due to an increase in automation and widespread knowledge about birth control, abortion, and gene therapy, there would be no need for everyone to work just to live and survive as an organism

When we have automated self-repairing tractors tending the fields, when we have durable solar power plants giving us unending power, when we have created all of these things, all that will necessary will be a baseline level of maintenance - not "growth" in the traditional sense of money hoarding

As such, all citizens will be free to spend most of their spare time on personal interests, hobbies, art, exercise, socializing, and anything they want.

If you don't think this is do-able, you don't understand the power of automation and how it will continue to revolutionize the world for centuries. We're only getting started, this has all only happened in the past 100 years - think about what will happen in 200 years

This isn't about now it's about a generalized principle.

All species that cannot manage to provide a universal basic income to all members of the species while also maintaining its environment, has, by any well thought out definitions of a sufficiently advanced civilization - FAILED

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If you do not stick up for your fellow man, you are not a man but an animal still. Not civilized. Feel free to be one, but don't expect your kind to be treated like a man as opposed to like an animal during the revolutions of the coming centuries.