skafather84 wrote:
ruveyn wrote:
The working class would still be living in caves without the intellectual elite.
They certainly wouldn't have online forums to pretend like their opinion matters, that much is for sure.
So the elite would suddenly start programming their own applications? Rather than writing the specs? They would suddenly start planting and harvesting? They would suddenly start hauling their own trash? They would suddenly be willing to do the work and perform the labor of every infrastructure job that is now below their station? Dr.s would start running their own lab tests? Scientists would start building their own equipment, instruments, and prototypes?
They would get sick pretty darn quickly of cleaning their own toilets, day after day.
Remember what happened in the communes in the '60s? No work, no food.
Sitting around on a nice comfy chair telling other elites what to do would not last very long, unless you were the warlord.