New Sci Fi Setting Seeds

[malloyd]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

A transhuman dystopia. 99% of humanity is now unemployable in any legitimate way because robotics are just that good, so they live on a government provided Guaranteed Income that provides them with what would be the necessities of life and a bit more except between the huge numbers of drug addicts preying on them to feed their habits and the straight up mobsters collecting "rent" they live in post-scarcity desperate poverty.

Who's buying the stuff the robots are producing?

You can do an underclass in *relative* poverty in a robot economy, but not a vast majority in *desperate* poverty. And it's not just for the lack of purchasers of the robots production, but also because if the robots aren't producing stuff so cheap a lot of the people can buy more stuff than they could ever make themselves, they aren't cheaper than hiring people to make it and therefore don't make people unemployable.