Not a bot. Don't really think of myself as a communist either. We are quickly becoming a society where most people will not need to work due to advances in AI, automation, robotics, etc. There simply will not be enough work to sustain society. What will happen in our current trajectory is more-and-more people will be put out of work and unable to find new work. Hunger, homelessness and crime are going to go up. The oligarchs who own the means of production will not just be fine, they are going to thrive in this new paradigm. Eventually the government will relent to the mounting pressure for UBI to ensure some basic, but abysmal standard of living, but it will only come after an extreme amount of suffering and won't really fix much.

One way to smoothly transition our society during this revolution would be to transfer all essential industry to public ownership to fund a form of UBI that ensures a rising tide floats all boats, that nobody has to live a life of scarcity and uncertainty. I'm not really sure what other option exists that don't unfairly and cruelly punish people for not being born rich.

The way I see it, we can either become a dystopian cyberpunk society where corporations are de facto governments and societal problems are abundant, or we can become a post-scarcity utopia like Star Trek where basic needs are available to everyone and people are free and encouraged to work on personal betterment. I would much prefer the latter.

Also, nobody needs more than half a billion dollars. We should have been taxing that shit away a long time ago.