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self-repairing is only a small part. bots would have to be just as useful/cost-effective as poor humans. Apparently manual labour at $2/hr is cheaper than robots still.
If the environment is too hot for a human to work outside, the labor cost goes to infinity as the work will not be completed even if somebody takes the money
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I think if hundreds of millions of people were faced with unliveable conditions, they would be strongly incentivized to move themselves. Also, it would more likely be a migration that plays out over the span of, say, a generation. In 2020 it was estimated that 55 million people were displaced due to climate and weather events, more than 3 times the number displaced by conflict and violence. So the mass migration is a…
I think you do not understand. When a heat wave comes the people will not be able to "move" themselves. Most of these people don't have means to do so in best of times.