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What kind of new world order? In short - own anything, be happy (including privacy, freedom of choice, freedom of thought, freedom of speech, decent work, financial freedom, and so on)

More detailsIt's a world where instead of cash, only central bank digital currency "CBDC" is special money with full traceability, a limit on making purchases and sales of goods, and every month, if you don't spend that money, your account is reset to zero. Because of this shit, you simply won't have the luxury of owning anything: not a car, not equipment, including computers and smartphones, and not a house. As I suspect, people may not have the right to own anything by law. And one of the justifications for such a law is for the safety of all people аs, for example, is now happening with the law on Internet safety in europe, "who knows what you are trying to create in your garage? Or do you want to take revenge for the fact that the bright future of your children was taken away because of AI?". Same with surveillance, there will be the same excuses for AI systems to track you constantly, to know your personality better than you do, to be able to predict your every move, emotion and desire.

Here are a few posts by other people, I think they will be a useful addition:

Ford Can Lock You Out of Your Own Car: https://lemmy.world/post/46363784

Forget the AI job apocalypse. AI’s real threat is worker control and surveillance: https://lemmy.world/post/46779888

About CBDC: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2026/04/27/cbdcs-are-slowing-in-asia-but-china-is-sticking-to-its-e-cny-plans/

Its my opinion but, I also think that they will try to reduce the world's population from 8+ billion to 2-4 billion with the help of wars and famine, and possibly a new pandemic. The reason? Why do technocrats need so many additional people if they also need to be fed, when AI and robots are quite capable of automating almost all work and specializations? It's just not profitable.

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The Fourth Industrial Revolution: most of the intellectual work is done by AI (office work, programming, creativity, art, сontent сreation) people are left with the shittiest and lowest-paid jobs In most cases. I'm not sure about manual jobs, but it looks like companies will try to replace them too, with an AI-controlled humanoid robots.

Well, they will try to replace couriers with the help of delivery robots or drones, for example, I found one article about this: https://chicago.suntimes.com/technology/2026/03/20/chicago-food-delivery-robots-controversy

What do you think, can such a system work or will it simply collapse due to its fragility and high cost?

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[–] quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I also think that they will try to reduce the world's population from 8+ billion to 2-4 billion with the help of wars and famine, and possibly a new pandemic.

No, they plan to reduce the population by telling people that there's no hope (and maybe jump from a bridge or something? idk)

In Spain we call these people "cuñados" (brothers-in-law), people that know everything but they are full of shit.

[–] deadymouse@lemmy.world 1 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

In Spain we call these people “cuñados” (brothers-in-law), people that know everything but they are full of shit.

I would probably call it a syndrome, I'm tired of checking how things really are, but I seem to know the most important things, so I'm 100 percent sure I'm right. But yeah.

[–] luthis@lemmy.nz 5 points 1 day ago

Does the current system work? It will be much the same, except worse for more people.

[–] TotallyWorthLife@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Unless AI and automatization is done for everyone's good, and not just for the profit of a very small group, it's either going to collapse under the demands of the majority, or it will bring us to a dystopia where either the bottom is forced to procreate to keep having cheap labor for the worst jobs, ad-infinitum, or it gets phased out by machines until all there is left is the people on top.

[–] deadymouse@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

A dystopian option is more likely.

[–] TotallyWorthLife@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

I don't wanna blame them because each does what they need to get by and may not have the energies for more, but if the average person doesn't start to fight it, it's gonna be the dystopia.