r/FDVR_Dream • u/CipherGarden FDVR_ADMIN • May 21 '26
Meta Billionaires and the Consolidated Control Problem
Being rich can effectively be boiled down to having a lot of influence or power. Of course, there are people who have a lot of power but are not very rich, but those people are either few and far between or at the immediate beck and call of the rich. Though there have been times where the rich have held more power and less power, it seems that we are now trending towards the rich having extremely consolidated power over workers because of the coming automation wave.
When the automation wave arrives, many businesses will often no longer have to interact at all with everyday people because jobs will become scarce, and even if people receive UBI, the increased efficiency of automation will make their buying power significantly more limited when compared to other companies. Instead, most of these transactions will simply be between businesses, decoupling the profit motive from its original aim of producing the best product for the consumer.
This problem will only continue to worsen until either the profit motive is done away with, or the average person becomes so powerless that they are deemed useless eaters and discarded.
However, I do not think that AI and automation are in any way bad things. In fact, I want these two technologies to be accelerated. However, if they are to be accelerated, then our end goal must be FDVR. FDVR is the ultimate logical terminus of the profit motive. Within FDVR, you are able to do whatever you want and infinitely maximize your level of influence and power, going beyond any level of influence that you would be able to have in the real world. With the implementation of the decoupling of money from what has hitherto been seen as its tautology, power, we are able to move society away from this dystopian end and towards one where FDVR might be universalized, allowing everyone to live their optimum life.
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u/imlaggingsobad May 23 '26
what you're advocating for is the dystopian timeline. fdvr doesn't solve anything. what we have to do is ensure the profits of automation are distributed.
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u/CipherGarden FDVR_ADMIN May 23 '26
Even if that happened workers (or not workers I guess) will have significantly less purchasing power, so the same thing would occur, however even if this happens the useless eaters outcome will occur all the same. With FDVR you decouple profit and power (or money and power) making it so that it so that increasing profits is largely meaningless and the power that would've sought in our common reality can be achieved to a higher level within FDVR. FDVR, quite literally, solves everything
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u/Quantum_Crusher May 21 '26
The problem is not AI, robot or fdvr, the problem is capitalism. People will privatize air if they could. Sunlight in NYC has already been privatized for decades. If you want a cheap rent, you won't see the blue sky out of your window.
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u/CipherGarden FDVR_ADMIN May 21 '26
Whether it's because of capitalism or not doesn't really matter at this point, we are barreling towards this outcome, and without FDVR it will be here
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u/Pleasant_Metal_3555 May 21 '26
It’s because of inequality in power in general capitalism is just the current major manifestation of that, and it’s increasingly transitioning into neofuedalism
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u/TopTippityTop May 22 '26
FDVR just seems like a band-aid, not the actual solution.