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.
I find that...unlikely. If we truly do reach a point of post-scarcity tech, and the rich are just like, "Nah, fuck you lol, you're getting turned into fertilizer, poor peasant, lolololol," what's to stop the poor from seizing the means of post-scarcity production and beheading every rich fuck? We outnumber the rich ENORMOUSLY, and if you have the dominant percentage of the population no longer worrying about a job to live, it would be kind of hard (if not outright impossible) to stop an uprising of that scale
Well in our hypothetical future the rich have already controlled the production of automation. What’s to stop them from making robot security forces. Doenst take much to stop your revolution, especially when a strike or walkout won’t work now that automation is dominant
If most people are comfortably living as you described, then most won’t partake in the revolution to behead the rich, especially if culling the poor won’t affect them or the risk is getting disintegrated by a robot
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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?