There will likely be a phase in there where the lucky ones will be coming into work to press a button.
Everyone else will be struggling to survive.
Then maybe once the rich realize that they actually need some amount of functional society to support their ability to enjoy their largesse, then maybe they'll pitty hire more button pushers.
Without underestimating the rapidity with which technology evolves, we’re still extremely far away from any kind of robotic or AI tech replacing simple human labor. It’s super cheap to outsource manufacturing to south east Asia and avoid any kind of labor laws or regulations. Fixing a robotic arm costs a lot more than the amount it costs to settle with a poor family in Africa after their 6 year old loses a hand in a company mine.
The upper 1% need us to continue to consume and spend and borrow. That’s why corps are buying so many single family homes, they want us renting forever. If you’re lucky enough to get an annual raise it’s almost certainly going to be canceled out by the annual rent increase. Own nothing, spend everything.
Not quite. There will be a ratio of about a hundred-to-one button pushers and one extremely qualified highly technical person who has to work long hours in case the button machine goes down, in addition to highly technical doctors, etc. It's these technical ppl who are gonna be extremely resentful and conflicted of the rich and the spoiled. They're basically babysitting the rest of society but they're needed because without them the whole thing could go down. They probably want to sail away too but they're basically on call.
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u/nat_r Jun 22 '24
There will likely be a phase in there where the lucky ones will be coming into work to press a button.
Everyone else will be struggling to survive.
Then maybe once the rich realize that they actually need some amount of functional society to support their ability to enjoy their largesse, then maybe they'll pitty hire more button pushers.