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If we can deal with the personal economics of the transition, isn’t freeing up human capital to do something else a good thing?
by rileymat2 10mo ago
If we can deal with the personal economics of the transition, isn’t freeing up human capital to do something else a good thing?
- watwut 10mo agoThe upper class who holds all the power does not want people to have good life. They want to extract as much as possible from most of us. So, no, because said human capital is holding shorter end of the stick and will be worst off.
- lanyard-textile 10mo agoYes, unfortunately we cannot deal with the personal economics of such a transition :)
- timmytokyo 10mo agoWe should just develop cold fusion. It's gotta be easy, right?
- Plasmoid 10mo agoCGP Grey once asked "What happens to humans when it becomes uneconomic to employ them?" eg, the value of their economic output is functionally zero.
- joquarky 10mo agoIf you like speculative fiction on this topic, read Manna by Marshall Brain while you still can (the author died not long ago, so it may not stay up). https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 https://marshallbrain.com/manna1