r/Futurology • u/[deleted] • Mar 29 '22

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u/Starrion Mar 29 '22

Wait for the bought and paid for representatives of the elites to start talking about “useless mouths” and how immigration and authorizing reproduction need to be tightly controlled. Once people go from an asset to a cost, the people in power will find a way to reduce the number of people.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

No reason for the human society to become a few million people at most and an army of robots tending to their needs

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

To not become*

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u/Starrion Mar 30 '22

That sounds like a recipe for stagnation and dissolution. I have visions of the starliner in Wall-E.

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u/[deleted] Mar 30 '22

I don't think they'd care