Kurginyan: Billions of people will become unnecessary in thirty years

01.05.2021, Moscow.

In thirty years, technological advances and cost optimization will lead to a kind of capitalism where billions of people will become unnecessary and what to do with them will become a major issue, said political scientist, the leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan on April 26 on the Evening with Vladimir Solovyov program on Russia One channel.

At the moment, society is not interested in discussing the strategy of human development: “People live in the present. Politicians turn to the pragmatic approach. There is no entity that can to raise concern about what will happen in thirty years, “ noted the political scientist.

“The pattern of inheritance that existed under capitalism is virtually abolished, and there is no aristocracy anymore. Who should care about what will happen in the long run?” – Kurginyan explained the lack of entity that creates a strategy for the future.

According to the expert, in a quarter of a century ”three hundred million people – and not the so-called ‘golden billion’, only three hundred million – will pile all of humanity under all the necessary consumer goods” thanks to technological advancements.

From the capitalist point of view, which is all about efficiency and profit: why do we need the rest of the people? What will they do?

Why the Egyptian pharaohs needed them is understandable: a huge number of people had to drag stone blocks using ropes to build a pyramid. Why certain Russian capitalists like Putilov needed them is understandable: a huge factory and a huge number of well-educated and well-fed people, whom the communists called ‘the gravediggers of capitalism, had to produce steel parts or machines”, explained the political scientist.

Capitalism cannot let eight to ten billion superfluous people to simply live, “love each other and enjoy the sun,“ if it is all about optimization.

What will these masters do with all these people? – raises the question the leader of the Essence of Time movement. – And isn’t COVID-19 and such just a warm-up, a test, a prologue to what will happen: and what if we have to move it in a certain direction?”

Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency

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