I think it’s much more likely that there is no such basic income at all, and that companies continue on as though nothing is different, happily replacing as many warm bodies as possible with more efficient silicon hands and minds. There will be far greater wealth concentration than at any time in all of human history, in the hands of a few thousand extraordinarily wealthy families. Most people will be relegated to absolute penury as wages stagnate and prices continue to relentlessly rise. People will naturally stop having children as it becomes prohibitively expensive to raise them, and populations will decline. Violence will become far more common, as people are displaced by climate change and attempt to squeeze into the remaining areas on Earth that are habitable. The rich will retreat into lives preserved for hundreds of years through genetic and cybernetic intervention, and will potentially live lives of absolute luxury in the few extremely fine habitats on Earth, or in orbiting space stations with an extravagantly high entry price that all but assure the wealthy will live completely separate lives from the masses of humanity slowly dying in piles of filth at their feet.
FTL travel would be time travel. If you exceed the speed of light, you exceed the speed of causality. If you travel 1000x the speed of light towards a distant destination, then you will also arrive there when light emitted from that object was from a time before when you observed it at your departure. I don’t think FTL or even a large portion of light speed will ever be possible. Even at 99% the speed of light, in the forward direction, everything will be blue-shifted to an enormous degree, possibly to the point that even the cosmic background radiation becomes essentially gamma rays blowing holes through you and your spacecraft. God help you if you ran into a small particle or even a gentle solar wind, as the front of your ship vaporizes in a nuclear explosion.
Laser-Brain-Delusion t1_j6gsxs5 wrote
Reply to Private UBI by SantoshiEspada
I think it’s much more likely that there is no such basic income at all, and that companies continue on as though nothing is different, happily replacing as many warm bodies as possible with more efficient silicon hands and minds. There will be far greater wealth concentration than at any time in all of human history, in the hands of a few thousand extraordinarily wealthy families. Most people will be relegated to absolute penury as wages stagnate and prices continue to relentlessly rise. People will naturally stop having children as it becomes prohibitively expensive to raise them, and populations will decline. Violence will become far more common, as people are displaced by climate change and attempt to squeeze into the remaining areas on Earth that are habitable. The rich will retreat into lives preserved for hundreds of years through genetic and cybernetic intervention, and will potentially live lives of absolute luxury in the few extremely fine habitats on Earth, or in orbiting space stations with an extravagantly high entry price that all but assure the wealthy will live completely separate lives from the masses of humanity slowly dying in piles of filth at their feet.