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We’re enabling a huge swath of humanity being put out of work so a handful of billionaires can become trillionaires.
by pupppet 2y ago
We’re enabling a huge swath of humanity being put out of work so a handful of billionaires can become trillionaires.
- abiraja 2y agoAnd also the solving of hundreds of diseases that ail us.
- hartator 2y agoIt doesn’t matter. Statists rather be poor, sick, and dead than risking trillionaires.
- thrance 2y agoYou should read about workers right in the gilded age, and see how good laissez-faire capitalism was. What do you think will happen when the only thing you can trade with the trillionaires, your labor, becomes worthless?
- lewhoo 2y agoOne of the biggest factors in risk of death right now is poverty. Also what is being chased right now is "human level on most economically viable tasks" because the automated research for solving physics etc. even now seems far-fetched.
- thrance 2y agoYou need to solve diseases and make the cure available. Millions die of curable diseases every year, simply because they are not deemed useful enough. What happens when your labor becomes worthless?
- asdf6969 2y agoWhy do you think you’ll be able to afford healthcare? The new medicine is for the AI owners
- distortionfield 2y agoThis is the same boring alarmist argument we’ve heard since the Industrial Revolution. Humans have always turned extra output provided by technological advancement to increase overall productivity.
- pupppet 2y agoYou’re right, who needs jobs when productivity is high.
- stri8ed 2y agoIt would happen in China regardless what is done here. Removing billionaires does not fix this. The ship has sailed.