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The AI Backlash Could Get Very Ugly. Imagine what happens if jobs actually start disappearing. (www.theatlantic.com)
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[–] shiftymccool@piefed.ca 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

if there are no jobs to be done in the first place, then that just means that you don't have a reason to keep the people ~~in these miserable conditions anymore~~.

FTFY

[–] gandalf_der_12te@feddit.org 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

so you are saying, if people are not being kept, then they would die? like a pet that can't care for itself? do you think that people are that dependent on government to provide for them? are you not an anarchist?

[–] shiftymccool@piefed.ca 1 points 1 week ago

I rarely engage but you misunderstood my comment so much i felt compelled. I just mean that once everything is automated and there are no jobs left, there will be no reason for the ruling/owner class to keep the peasant/working class around at all. What self-respecting oligarch wants to mar their view with the smelly, shambling masses when they can have an uncomplaining robot butler bring them anything they want?