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It's because of our economic system being build upon people having to work to get money to live while at the same time naturally "the system" is trying to be more and more efficient so less and less work is needed. It's an inherent problem which becomes more obvious with AI. Imagine a world where robots are doing all the work. Wouldn't it be great? No one has to work anymore. I think it would be possible but only with a radical systemic change how our societies work. Also, I don't think we are even close to be there, but that would be the goal, wouldn't it?
I agree, that would be great. But it's never going to happen. First off, robots need maintenance and supervision. But let's say we have solved that and we got a robot eco system where they maintain themself without going full terminator. Then we have the human factor. What happens to humans when they have too much time on their hands and get bored. They destroy things. We see this over and over again. This is why we can't have nice things.
It's the problem with how companies operate. As a whole we should be working towards utopia. But there's no desire to pay into social programs, only to extract money from other (usually non-billionaire) people, and avoid paying them so that extracted money stays in their hands. It's the "No Take, Only Throw" dog meme but "No wages, only spend."