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Currently, the economics don't stack up. How does society handle it when the best jobs are automated? When all jobs are automated? The Star Trek post-scarcit
by p0pcult 4y ago
Currently, the economics don't stack up. How does society handle it when the best jobs are automated? When all jobs are automated?
The Star Trek post-scarcity utopia scenario feels very unlikely; Mad Max-style scrapping for leftovers while Musk, Bezos, et. al. live behind walls feels infinitely more probable.
How do you implement UBI when a huge proportion of the political class is vehemently against it. Maybe we need to AI politicians, so they start to figure it out?
- weatherlite 4y agoI don't have anything figured out but I think we can do it as a society. I do think we have a very negative biased view of the ultra rich. Zuckerberg, Gates and Buffett all give or will give all of their wealth to society. So not all of them are the same. I think Musk will probably also give most back eventually though I'm not sure he has said anything yet. And remember, we are still a democracy. We get to vote. We control the army and the police and all institutions. If we decide that this capitalism isn't hot sh* anymore we can change it. What will the evil billionaires do? (this sounds like a good straight to DVD movie actually...hey GPT write me a script about this)