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> Their quality of life will increase because of all the cheap stuff we can make with ai and robots. Ahh, the old "modern poor people are better off than medev
by Epa095 4y ago
> Their quality of life will increase because of all the cheap stuff we can make with ai and robots.
Ahh, the old "modern poor people are better off than medevial kings since we have microwaves and supercomputers in our pockets". No matter that they are all stressed, living paycheck to paycheck and a single (treatable) disease from crippling debt.
- MichaelZuo 4y ago> single (treatable) disease from crippling debt. This sounds a lot better than being a single (treatable) disease from guaranteed death? Which many, many, historical monarchs experienced. At least some fraction of such monarchs would have gladly taken the opportunity to swap places if they had known in advance.
- antifa 4y ago> This sounds a lot better than You can justify pretty much any horrible thing with "sounds better than a torment nexus"
- MichaelZuo 4y agoWhat's a 'torment nexus'?