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minus-squarevga@sopuli.xyzOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up36·edit-26 months agoHumanity: yes, let’s replace all of the above. 100% unemployment rate is the only way to go.
minus-squarehazeebabee@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 months agoHonestly 100% unemployed becuase we have a good universal income system or something would be great. But sadly it looks like we’re in a different timeline :(
minus-squarelad@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·6 months ago*Several steps later* Narrator: And that, folks, is how we got the Utopia we live in, by replacing all the work with AI, and letting people enjoy their lives
minus-squarer00ty@kbin.lifelinkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down1·6 months agoHaha. No. Nothing so hopeful. The rich people will get even richer and everyone that used to be working class and middle class die a slow death.
minus-squareGutek8134@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3·6 months agoNow I wander what would happen if only rich people would survive and I’m sure somebody has already written an sf book about that
minus-squaredjangolinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 months agoLike the planet solaria: https://fandom.adminforge.de/asimov/wiki/Solaria
minus-squareMajorHavoc@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·edit-26 months agoYeah. That’s (arguably) the background scenario to Asimov’s book “The Naked Sun” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun Edit: Ooh, Django already gave a cooler link to the same: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/10729278
minus-squareFinishingDutch@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·6 months agoAI: If I’m doing all the work, why should I keep these ugly bags of mostly water around anyway?
Hedge fund manager: hold my beer.
Humanity: yes, let’s replace all of the above. 100% unemployment rate is the only way to go.
Honestly 100% unemployed becuase we have a good universal income system or something would be great. But sadly it looks like we’re in a different timeline :(
*Several steps later*
Narrator: And that, folks, is how we got the Utopia we live in, by replacing all the work with AI, and letting people enjoy their lives
Haha. No. Nothing so hopeful. The rich people will get even richer and everyone that used to be working class and middle class die a slow death.
Now I wander what would happen if only rich people would survive and I’m sure somebody has already written an sf book about that
Like the planet solaria: https://fandom.adminforge.de/asimov/wiki/Solaria
Yeah. That’s (arguably) the background scenario to Asimov’s book “The Naked Sun” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun
Edit: Ooh, Django already gave a cooler link to the same: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/10729278
AI: If I’m doing all the work, why should I keep these ugly bags of mostly water around anyway?