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There is no chance AI will inspire rich tech execs to give money to all the people whose jobs they've stolen. We're trending toward Saudi Arabia, where an ultr
by smt88 2y ago
There is no chance AI will inspire rich tech execs to give money to all the people whose jobs they've stolen.
We're trending toward Saudi Arabia, where an ultra-wealthy class rules society.
- amichail 2y agoYou could tax companies using AI more.
- smt88 2y agoWhat if AI companies control the government, like they do in the US now?
- Ekaros 2y agoAren't oil state actually quite generous towards citizen? Either by welfare or by setting up jobs. Or controlling commerce.
- smt88 2y agoThey're very generous toward citizens, and they're very stingy with who is called a citizen. They're all filled with modern-day slavery in the form if indentured servants.
- newaccountman2 2y agoIn Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states, the wealthy class pays out a fair bit of money to citizens (IDK the exact parameters of who counts as someone who receives this money, but you get the idea--at the very least, the Arabs whose ancestors had been living in the country when oil was found are receiving something).
- dragonwriter 2y ago> In Saudi Arabia and the other Gulf states, the wealthy class pays out a fair bit of money to citizens In the gulf states, the usual pattern is that the citizens are rewarded with a share of the wealth extracted by exploitation of vast hordes of noncitizen laborers, so that they are invested in the exploitation, from which, on a per capita basis at least, the wealthy class receives much more.