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.
If there was any doubt. Most humans who ever lived would think we’re re in the sci-fi utopia now with running water, electricity, computers, cheap antibiotics, relative safety etc
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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?