3 ms·

Then the rich will have no consumers.

• ericd 4y ago
  Why do you need consumers when you have machines making most of what you want? Then you just need to be able to trade things with other people who have different machines and resources from yourself to get the bits you can't have made by your machines.
  • pkaye 4y ago
    So you are saying everyone will have those machines?
    • passion__desire 4y ago
      Nope. He is saying power concentration will increase further. This is also Yuval Noah Harari's thesis. You can read about how that will get achieved here. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-noah-harari-technology-tyranny/568330/ https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-n...
  • astrange 4y ago
    Where do the inputs for the machines come from? ex: having a machine that generates CPUs out of sand and works for free would mean cheaper CPUs, but it would also mean a lot more employment in the sand industry, and there might not be a machine for creating sand. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox
    • ericd 4y ago
      Large mining robots? Some dump trucks are already autonomous, I'm guessing excavators aren't far.
      • astrange 4y ago
        Do they stop being autonomous when they get a flat tire?
        • ericd 4y ago
          Currently, yeah, but people will certainly work down the priority chain.
• rcarr 4y ago
  Maybe they’re after some Highlander style planet where « there can be only one »