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We are arguing about something imaginary.
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No we're not.
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There is no reason to believe they did or did not have an economy.
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Name one culture beyond the stage of hunter-gatherer or farming society that didn't have an economy.
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>>Wrong. Non-technical jobs are simply replaced by technical jobs. For example, my job
Wrong? Wrong about an IMAGINARY place and society. How can I be wrong about it? I'm extrapolating the idea of a perfect society.
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We're not talking about an imaginary perfect society but about reality.
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Anyone knows a technical job can be just as obsolete as a non technical. Computers and robots will one day all the jobs. Even fixing each other.
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Knowing the current stage of human technology and man's nature to screw up, I find that very hard to believe.
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You seem to think a perfect society ends with what you've experienced.
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Again, we aren't referring to a perfect society.
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You haven't experienced advanced technology.
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I work in IT. I experience advanced technology on a daily basis
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WHY are you assuming there WERE oligarchs in Atlantis? This seems to be guess work beyond the pale.
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You said "You can already see in our society that efficiency will one day make all jobs obsolete. Once free energy comes into play there is no consumerism." This is a reference to our future, so I used the present as a start.