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The problem is two things are happening at once and they are being conflated. Financially a cannibalising house of cards is being built which is a common artifact of modern capitalism. But in the same process a means is being realistically sought, and openly expressed, to replace the human workforce. This second aspect is unique and when written plainly is far more stark than the more common financial greed fuelled idiocy half.
Nah, I'm sure all the most valuable companies and richest people are pouring more money in to developing AI to replace the human workforce out of the goodness of their hearts.
Once most humans are no longer needed in order for them to have all of their needs and wants met and they are directly in control of all production and everything else they definitely plan to share everything equally and turn Earth into a utopia for all of humanity. Sharing and caring is what the rich and powerful do best.
Ai got everyone twisted. Now you don’t want automation because you fear becoming obsolete. Why fear that? There’s billions of us. We can simply build the tech then throw the billionaires out.
And if billions are too weak to do that to a few thousand… well that’s called permission.
We'd better act quick, those autonomous "pizza delivery" drones are getting a lot of practice targeting the center of mass of the hungriest looking kids in Palestine.
We did that with the fediverse but the billionaires still control the online conversation.
Yeah, sort of difficult to keep that from happening when they can offer large sums of money to gain behind the scenes control either directly or just by paying a bunch of people too make and run communities that mirror the biggest ones on Reddit.
People still gotta eat, and unless we can jump directly to a Star Trek post scarcity utopia, people need an income in order to get food.
UBI has been proven to work, but no government has the guts to implement it lest they anger their corporate ~~owners~~ donors.
Your government and mine may be different.
I'd rather have my subsistence at the whims of the government than at the whims of a billionaire business owner.
Ok, how do we organize that in an equitable manner?
Isn't that more-or-less what a government is supposed to be?
I hope you guys can accomplish that before they permanently destroy your country (and mine, as your president has threatened to do multiple times).