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> they can do something else with their lives. Let them eat cake.
by discreteevent 26d ago
> they can do something else with their lives.
Let them eat cake.
- eru 26d agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake That phrase was born as a straw man.
- jojobas 26d agoThe argument against "they can do something else with their lives" is not a strawman though. In a hypothetical end state where the people who own fully-automated production of everything, and need maybe few millions employed to support and guard that production, the "freed" people are not going to do something better with their lives.
- palmotea 26d ago> In a hypothetical end state where the people who own fully-automated production of everything, and need maybe few millions employed to support and guard that production, the "freed" people are not going to do something better with their lives. AI will bring about a post-scarcity society, just not for you, worker.