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Chance-Deviceyesterday at 9:14 PM2 repliesview on HN

No, I think people will demand to not live in poverty. Capitalism allows people to escape poverty by personal effort. An AI future won’t allow it by any means other than collective effort, so that’s what we’ll do.


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mekaelyesterday at 9:38 PM

That will entail an immense amount of violence to be undertaken by the working class against those in power, unless you think they'll gladly give up all of their ill gotten gains out of the goodness of their black little hearts.

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mahoganytoday at 1:27 AM

> No, I think people will demand to not live in poverty

What about other countries in the world where people... live in poverty?

> Capitalism allows people to escape poverty by personal effort

Isn't it possible that there is a future where AI makes the average value of human labor (or, "personal effort") plummet? Perhaps capitalism will lose some of its edge against a technology like this.