alt Hacker News>Capitalists only need robots and artificial intelligence to serve them
That doesn't make sense because robots and AI won't have money to buy goods and services.
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People have already hooked up Stripe accounts to OpenClaw instances, so AI's currently buying and selling goods and services.
The capitalists realized that if they literally starve the working class there will be revolution. But if they produce enough so they can sustain (barely) rest of the people with 1% output while they consume 99%, it will be okay.
So don't worry, you'll have basic ~~income~~ soylent green.
Capitalists don't care about money. Capitalists collect money for it's power in a capitalist system.
If they get "AI" and industrial robots, they don't care that nobody can buy their products anymore because they never cared about selling products in the first place.
Right now capitalists loathe that they can "only* collect a 10-50% return on the things "they build", and the rest of the value has to go to the consumer. They want nothing more than getting rid of that "waste", and just having their personal factories create whatever they want and their personal farms making whatever they want and we all just fucking die.
True but they will focus their market on the every enriching 0.1% that will have all the money.