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You can't sell your product if there's nobody that can buy it. I suspect the lower 70% you're talking about spend their money to keep the economy going. UBI? I

You can't sell your product if there's nobody that can buy it. I suspect the lower 70% you're talking about spend their money to keep the economy going. UBI? I dunno...jury is still out on that science experiment. Automation has made a vast majority of our jobs irrelevant, and ChatGPT looks to make a much larger component similarly irrelevant, but you can't sell your crops if people can't buy your crops.

CapricornNoble 3y ago
> You can't sell your product if there's nobody that can buy it. Our current model is capitalists get rich selling piles of cheap stuff to the labor class. I think the future might be petite bourgeoisie selling high-end, long-lasting products to each other. Picture the guy who has his own AI company selling AI to the guy who has a robot company, who sells robots to the guy who owns a coachbuilder such as [1] or [2], who sells cars to the AI guy and the robot guy. Then the car guy buys a watch from a watchsmith in Switzerland. Watch guy doesn't have any robots but maybe he uses AI to help him design new watches, which he builds by hand himself. Then all four of these guys eat by buying meat from a guy who uses robotic cattlehands to coral his herd of free-range grass-fed bison or something. Each of these five people work at the companies they own. They have no laborers underneath them that aren't AI or robots. They are just exchanging a small amount of high-value goods and services between each other. The HUMAN labor class is gonna die or be subsidized just enough to keep from revolting. [1] https://singervehicledesign.com/ https://singervehicledesign.com/ [2]https://www.fj.co/ https://www.fj.co/