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> If we're all broke/starving/being exterminated, who will the rich sell to? Themselves. The economy is a big cycle where money changes hands to drive production i.e. things getting made. AI will simultaneously greatly increase production (especially once humanoid robots are as dexterous as humans) and make the humans whose jobs it will do economically irrelevant. So the rich will buy and sell very nice things to eac…
> So the rich will buy and sell very nice things to each other while the rest of us get left out in the cold because we simply cannot compete with the robots. And because they will capture and control all resources (either by law or by force) we won't be able to create a functioning parallel economy either. Here's another framing for you: at this point _there are no longer rich and poor people_. There are fewer peopl…
except no, that's probably not whats going to happen, unless you want to explain to me why there have been voices calling for gruesome stuff to happen to the unproductive for the past 20 years ;)
https://www.yahoo.com/news/where-j-d-vance-gets-100000608.ht...
> In 2008, a software developer in San Francisco named Curtis Yarvin, writing under a pseudonym, proposed a horrific solution for people he deemed "not productive": "convert them into biodiesel, which can help power the Muni buses."