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I’ll need to properly write about it on-wiki sometime, and MILD SPOILERS AHEAD but in one part of a “Flash Foreward” in [[Pantheon (TV Show) ]] , there is a monologue where (insert the proper quote+timestamps here later but)

In regards to the swarm of labor from Uploaded Intelligences (people who had their brains destructively scanned then their consciousnesses uploaded to computers/the www, where they can “overclock” and live/work faster than “real” human scale time (doing hours of work in minutes)

It said something like “After the tax on UI labor, and a [[Universal Basic Income]] was implemented, the question went from “Will the robots take my job” to “Can the robots take my job too?”



ALL IN ALL given it was done in only an episode or two (as a part of the Flash Forward “wrapping up” ) the worldbuilding for that part was a bit rushed/had some gaps in to (Mainly the “would a [[UBI]] work, the likelihood of the [[Post-Work Paradise]] vs just ‘’’Mass Unemployment with the Current Status-Quo of you MUST work to live’’’ still in place” BUT other than that it was a pretty good representation ‘’’in common media’’’ of a “good ending” of [[Humans Need Not Apply]] levels of widespread automation

Similar to Bojack Horseman though some of the monologues in that show were just SOOOOO good

Anyways just wanted to write this on-wiki so when i make the page later i can properly tie the thoughts together and ‘’’WATCH PANTHEON’’’

--[[User:Eric|Eric]] ([[User talk:Eric|talk]]) 11:54, 13 May 2025 (UTC)