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I suggest you reexamine your priorities to focus on broader impact or at least more meaningful personal fulfillment. You me like the when farmland gets used up

• smoldesu 3y ago
  I'm not saying this post-capitalist hellscape is a good thing. I'm saying that this failure was preordained since the middle class was sustained entirely on the goodwill of the upper class. Of course it will shrink when profitability falls. As you said, demand will eventually evaporate in a system without class competition. This is a good thing; basic life-sustaining commodities like food and shelter should not be sold at a markup or separated by class. These markets would "collapse" back into sustainability. A holocaust for the housing market, but a lifeline to the unhoused or those who otherwise couldn't afford housing. It didn't take AI to set any of those wheels in motion. I didn't skip dinners before payday because my dad got priced out of overtime by a robot. The fact that we play this silly game of trade and barter is what put us here, and AI just lowers those ever-shrinking margins to nothingness. Now we're here, the capitalist apocalypse. > when farmland gets used up for solar to power AI. There is not enough demand, technicians, manufacturers or materials to make that a reality. The Tragedy of the Commons is a tragedy because it is unavoidable. Polluting our planet has already happened, except not with solar panels but oil byproduct and greenhouse gases. Some lot of good all that "demand" did Mother Earth.