Give it some years and there will be an endless stream of generated content.
Also, reality is starting to imitate fantasy. Current conflicts promise to become as entertaining, albeit with less compassion and hope. But that could be cause to help reality become like it (again).
Problem is that it’s not against the interest of the peasants.
Everybody knows how poor life can be in the rest of the world. Once you go human decency you want to share with everybody. You may even care about animals.
To put it bluntly: if they shape society, is that no contribution?
With some struggling, workers could invest part of their wages but they live paycheck to paycheck, of course often also not entirely by their own choice.
Instead of asking everybody to save, money is pooled in billionaires who don’t struggle when they invest.
That creates an unfair power imbalance but workers could change everything with taxes if they suffered too much.
Now, what is a low standard of living? We know that the world doesn’t have the resources to let everybody live like an average American. Sooner or later, resource usage has to be reduced. Everybody will have a very low standard of living unless we figure out how to live comfortably with less.
Controversial: how can illegal immigrants send money home but regular workers live paycheck to paycheck?
Rent would be cheaper if renters would unionize and wouldn’t spend above an agreed on limit.
It’s so hard to coordinate that only some workers can ask billionaires for better deals. Why? Why is not everybody ashamed that they cannot coordinate with their neighbors?
Roman’s walked out of town once a year to remind the elite of their value. The west models itself after the Roman Republic but tries to skip on the hard parts.
Investing some money in UBI experiments just makes them look good. What’s their enormous incentive to fully introduce it? It’s cheaper to commute by helicopter or relocate the headquarter. Homelessness is a problem for the middle class.
I beleave that the middle class has to finance UBI on their own. This company already provides the basic infrastructure. If that’s not a good deal then the deal has to be improved.