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There is a fundamental competition baked into existence in the form of land rights and human attention. Who gets to live where? Who are your friends? Who gets to go to that fancy college? While there are other ways of answering this question than "those who can afford it", it will always exist in some form.

While automation of necessities will make it easier to opt out of the capitalist mill, I would expect that to not be a tradeoff-free choice.




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