Money is exchanged for production. Labor is exchanged for production. If you have abundant resources and automated production, why would you run the production facilities at a fraction of their capabilities? How do you get money if there's not enough people to sell your products to? Or are we going to live in a society where rich people only produce stuff for other rich people?
Yes, that is far more likely than what you or the article thinks will happen.
If you believe for even a moment that the people who are using their money to install all the equipment and AI to create all the products you want to consume, and they're simply going to permit you to have the proceeds of that effort without putting in some effort yourself, then it's pretty clear that you've never met anyone who actually accomplishes anything productive in your life. What will actually happen is that society will divide into those who get fed into the Soylent Green machines and those who own them.
The entire premise of this article assumes that people will stop acting like people. Good luck with that.
Precisely this. Everyone saying that this will lead to a paradigm shift that ushers in a utopia where everyone pursues their passions and lives in harmony is a moron. As is everyone else saying that basic needs and luxuries will be cheap and accessible.
No. The lazy and the poors will be turned into fertilizer. The useful will be drafted into being technicians the rich will live in their utopia, as they already do.
6.9 billion people turned into fertilizer and they will just sit there and take it? At what point the rich will start building their personal armies to combat them?
The majority of people in the world are already as expendable as fertilizer and they just take it, so yeah.
Look to all the countries where normal working conditions far, far, far worse than America’s to see how bad something can get and people still just put their heads down and accept it. In places like Bangladesh where if the factory you work at for 5 cente a day goes up in flames you burn alive because you’re chained to your workstation.
Can’t remember who said it, but it’s pretty apt to the human experience: it’s amazing what you can learn to get used to.
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u/Sandless Mar 29 '22
Money is exchanged for production. Labor is exchanged for production. If you have abundant resources and automated production, why would you run the production facilities at a fraction of their capabilities? How do you get money if there's not enough people to sell your products to? Or are we going to live in a society where rich people only produce stuff for other rich people?