If there’s one thing that really gets heated debate started at the Futurist Club, it’s income inequality. Most of the time it starts innocently enough, with half of the group thinking that the future will have a fixed income for all citizens, or possibly no income at all (it can’t go wrong because people’s brains have been reprogrammed to be content with their income).
But things escalate, and we break one of our golden rules: no heavy discussion on the present day. There’s debate about politics, the benefits of standardized income, and I just sit there quietly wishing we could talk about how everyone will have a flying butler android to brush their teeth and serve them salmon and watercress crackers at any time, day or night.
Today we veered close to the topic with a discussion on property conveyancing and solicitors, although eventually it turned out to be quite a fun discussion. For one thing, we briefly discussed the homes of the future, though with a focus on home ownership. Then we revisited our previous discussion on how home ownership will be restricted to the elite, and conveyancers will be the rock stars of the shrinking world of real estate, alongside property advocates and maybe auctioneers…jury’s out on that one. It might be a job for some sort of auctioneer android.
But people are always going to be living IN things, even if we don’t need to. There may come a time when humans have no physical need of shelter, probably because we’ve been cybernetically augmented to not need it anymore, but houses aren’t going out of fashion. They’re the main place we stash all of our stuff. So as long as humans have STUFF…we’ll need property transfers. Melbourne property markets are booming, so these services are going to be in high demand for a long time to come. That’s it, no more comment. I don’t like it when people fight.
-Dewey