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In my opinion, there will be a point where profits lose their meaning. That point might be either, or a combination of: Nobody else has any money to be taken (b
by dusted 4y ago
In my opinion, there will be a point where profits lose their meaning.
That point might be either, or a combination of:
Nobody else has any money to be taken (because they have no jobs)
Stuff is free because machines are making it, so you can just get whatever you want made for you.
Money are a proxy for time and work, when machines get to a point where they're autonomously able to spend all the required time and do all the required work, there's nothing left for money to do..
If we stood on the edge of a scarcity-free world, I doubt even the greediest *illionaire would find any good reason to stop it (and if they did, well, I doubt they'd survive it for long)
- quantified 4y agoI suppose the desire for the luxury available to the *illionaire is not combined with the feeling that it should not be made available to others. It is combined with the knowledge that this earth cannot support billions at that level of luxury. And if the population is reduced to a quantity that the earth would support at that level, they'd want it to be made up of people they feel like hanging out with. That ia the population they want the machines to support. Everyone else should be shot into space.