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[–] Manticore@lemmy.nz 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

AI is propped up by investors. Always promising the.next big thing is just around the corner. The money is pouring in from other wealthy people...let's be real us common folk rarely if ever pay for AI. Its businesses doing that

but one day those investors will expect a return, so AI is being shoved in everything in the hopes of finding a use case that is actually profitable

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[–] DandomRude@lemmy.world 22 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Climate change has made large parts of the Earth uninhabitable.

Now civilization is collapsing and the remaining humans are fighting for their very survival.

Now the companies that destroyed the world have neither raw materials nor anyone to produce or buy their useless products.

What is their plan to make money if there is no longer any social order and therefore no trust in currencies?

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Well at that point they will all go into their big luxury bunkers. They haven't really thought further than that, presumably they think that the world will recover if they stay down there for long enough. I assume they think they're immortal or have cryogenic freezes, I don't think there is much of a real plan there.

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[–] Eyekaytee@aussie.zone 27 points 2 days ago (4 children)

if ai replaces all jobs then there is no need to have money since everything will be available in abundance

[–] BetaDoggo_@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Replacing all jobs won't create true abundance because the resources required to create things are finite, namely land and space in general. Without labour exchange the ones controlling the land have no reason to produce things for the average person who cannot provide them with anything in return. For a world with true abundance we'd need to eradicate greed, which I just can't see happening.

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[–] pimento64@sopuli.xyz 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 23 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Thats the fucking crazy part, they simply can't plan long term because they will be outcompeted by people only planning short term and that can't be allowed.

Besides, if the bourgeois automated every job they'd just kill us so that we stop being a problem

[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 11 points 2 days ago (2 children)

The top 10% of the income ladder are already responsible for the majority of all consumer spending in the US. That concentration can simply continue as long as the consumption of the wealthy continues to grow along with wealth concentration.

We're going to turn the world into Solaria. A handful of rich people living on vast robot-run estates selling goods and services to the wealthy owners of other estates.

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 days ago

Next step in the capitalism game; own the people.

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the ouroboros dance of capitalism will invariably lead to its own demise.

its up to us to kill it before it devours the habitable biosphere we need to like, exist and shit.

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[–] echodot@feddit.uk 15 points 2 days ago

I see that 4chan has got as far as recognising the dichotomy between short-term and long-term gratification. They are evolving faster than I thought possible. Perhaps by 2050 they'll have advanced as far as common courtesy. Well you never know.

[–] QueenHawlSera@sh.itjust.works 16 points 2 days ago

The plan is billionaires sell to each other

[–] ISOmorph@feddit.org 17 points 2 days ago

Tax any form of automation, be it software or hardware, and pay everyone a universal income from it.

[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago (4 children)

It's like when horses were replaced by automobiles. the economy kept going, just maybe with more glue and less oats.

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[–] Matriks404@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago (5 children)

If AGI revolution happens at the hands of tech bros, the same people who have been advocating more kids will suddenly start saying less kids.

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[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Remember the hype about 3D tv’s? That’s AI now.

[–] ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The difference is that 3D TVs were cool though

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[–] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)
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[–] vane@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Money is being printed 24/7.

[–] RejZoR@lemmy.ml 12 points 2 days ago (4 children)

They didn't think that far. They just fired everyone and replaced them with Ai.

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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 days ago

Looks like someone is about to discover capitalist crises.

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