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> You have very little money, but can spend endless days reconnecting with your friends, hiking, playing games, learning music, et cetera. Doesn't sound like a
by thomasahle 5y ago
> You have very little money, but can spend endless days reconnecting with your friends, hiking, playing games, learning music, et cetera.
Doesn't sound like a bad life to be honest. Good to hear we have a bright future if we ever get AI to take all the jobs.
- asdff 5y agoBut then how will the landlords get paid?
- jessaustin 5y agoIf robots are doing all the work, why would landlords be paid for anything?
- antihero 5y agoBecause they own stuff and see it as their right to make money for doing nothing.
- NovemberWhiskey 5y agoFirstly, fairly obvious you've never been a landlord. Second of all, yes, making money by owning stuff is called capitalism and that is the system we have.
- antihero 5y agoThank you so much for your enlightening comment. Clearly I understood neither of those things and now, I do.
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- sokoloff 5y agoIf the landlords won’t be paid for anything, why would they provide housing for tenants? Then where will the tenants live? Whatever you think of landlords, people do in general prefer to live indoors and landlords are in the business of offering that service.
- supercheetah 5y agoIf robots do all the construction and maintenance, then there's probably an AI that owns the building too that just wants the energy to sustain itself, in which case it probably owns the grid too, and probably won't care much about what the humans living in its buildings are doing.
- sokoloff 5y agoI loved the Matrix movies too, but we’re not at that place in the timeline yet (at least I think the chicken I’m eating is chicken).
- chii 5y agoso who owns the land on which the building was built? who owns the robots that built the building? Who provided the initial capital to build those robots?
- freeone3000 5y agoWhy should they get to offer that service merely because they bought the land first? Why does the service of housing people need to be offered by private citizens?
- sokoloff 5y agoWhat else would buying the land mean? Why do I get to use this laptop, eat this food, wear this shirt, or live in this [owner-occupied] house just because I bought it first? Housing could absolutely be provided by companies or governments. In the US, government has an absolutely horrible track record of providing desirable housing (except perhaps military base officer housing).
- prepend 5y agoThey get paid with the state provided unemployment income.
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- nikanj 5y agoI guess Montana hasn't heard of AI, as they're facing a labour shortage