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In a world where AI makes most of the things/services, wouldn't everything be so cheap that most people can afford it on something like UBI?

• 7speter 4y ago
  Not when all the marine life dies off because the oceans are too acidic and wrecks all sorts of havoc on above land eco systems.
  • jatins 4y ago
    ...how does the Marine Life die in this scenario?
    • 7speter 4y ago
      Which scenario are you referring to? The one where everything is cheap because of ai or because the acidic oceans? Various sea organisms rely on calcium carbonate for the formation of their shells and bones. If the water is too acidic there less calcium carbonate in the water…
    • 7speter 4y ago
      Oh and what Im getting at is that things like food don’t necessarily have to be cheap because “ai” produces goods. Ecological collapse can make essentials expensive regardless of who produces the goods.
• zokier 4y ago
  In theory yes, in practice that'd require some way to channel the profits from the tech back to society, which has proven tough nut to crack. Notoriously Keynes predicted 15 hour workweeks due the productivity improvements of 20th century. Well, the improvements happened but work weeks didn't get shorter
  • revelio 4y ago
    They got shorter in practice. Especially post-lockdowns lots of people are phoning it in to well paid jobs whilst working from home with Netflix on, taking long lunches, playing with the kids and then doing unchallenging work like meetings with other people who are also phoning it in. Yes they "work" 40 hours a week in theory but this sort of work would have seemed completely alien to someone in Keynes' era.
    • medvezhenok 4y ago
      Another thing to note is the length of retirement has increased significantly since Keynes' time. So if you look at a person's whole life, the amount of time at work certainly has decreased.