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Here is a counterexample: Universal cheap AI girlfriends and boyfriends. These would have a mildly depressing effect on the economy for a couple of generations
by tuatoru 2y ago
Here is a counterexample: Universal cheap AI girlfriends and boyfriends.
These would have a mildly depressing effect on the economy for a couple of generations, and then the population goes to zero.
- latentsea 2y agoWith birth rates already in decline, population is already going to zero.
- red-iron-pine 2y agoonly Western Gringos, and Asians in countries like SK and China. much of the world is still crapping out kids just fine. subsistence farmers feel more confident doing that than programmers, it seems.
- sharemywin 2y agoROI. only takes 5 years to make a good crop picker. much longer to make a good programmer.
- latentsea 2y agoAnd once you've got lots of crop pickers you can transition to management. Then you can start a marketplace, then upgrade that to a chain of supermarkets, then upgrade that to a global FMCG conglomerate, and then your birth rates will also decline and population go to zero. It's a sad realization that modern life which we deem the right way to exist is basically just wrong. That which is unsustainable by definition cannot be sustained after all.