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I'm not sure about having them "pretty soon", but what do you think AI, self driving cars and androids are for if not to alleviate people of work?

Better health care is a tough one, I'll give you that.




That's funny.

As a disclaimer I work on AI research.

Oh yeah. Definitely when we have discussions with companies to get funding we totally talk about how we're going to save the poor worker from all of these horrible jobs.

There's one end goal. Get rid of people to increase profits for management and shareholders.

People generally do not want to be "alleviated" of work, a great euphemism for being unemployed.

There's far more funding in getting rid of people than increasing their productivity 2x.


That's called the lump of labor fallacy.

Losing your job sucks. It could suck a lot less with stuff like UBI that distributes the right amount of the profits from increasingly concentrated automation. Maybe you think that's impossible in the US or wherever you're from. You might be right. The point is that whichever society figures out the right mix of policies to harness all the benefits of automation without turning 99% of their people into paupers is going to "win".




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