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Reminds me of the recent economist interview with Elon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuoqKYxDHVc&t=1880s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuoqKYxDHVc&t=1880s
by ma2kx 2mo ago
Reminds me of the recent economist interview with Elon:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuoqKYxDHVc&t=1880s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuoqKYxDHVc&t=1880s
Minton Beddoes: What people who lose their jobs, who are displaced, who may go off and garden, but how are they going to live? And what kind of I mean, it sounds to me...
Musk: universal high income
Minton Beddoes: but how are you going to get there? Let's talk about the politics of this cuz right now we if we look at the political pressures in most countries people are very very worried about this very against it. I mean it seems to me that there's a risk that we are heading more for revolution than for an easy route to this nirvana you're playing out.
Musk: I mean it will be a bumpy road. I'm not suggesting it will be sort of that everything will be smooth sailing here. Um, so I mean there are many jobs that used to exist that don't exist because of computers. I mean the the word computer used to refer to a person doing computations like that used to be a job description of a person. And you can see pictures online of um of buildings that... drifts away