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ItsMattyG • yesterday at 8:13 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

it seems fairly obvious to me that once ai becomes as good as a worker, people will pay a workers wages to use it - 24/7, can't quit, can't complain that badly, no lunch breaks

productivity tooling replaces employees


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scottLobster • yesterday at 8:32 PM

So we're talking about the complete destruction of the consumer economy.

Hard to see how Google or Facebook keeps their advertising models in that environment. There aren't enough construction workers and data scientists to buy everything.

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bojan • yesterday at 9:01 PM

No lunch breaks, but also no responsibility.

geraneum • yesterday at 8:17 PM

> people will pay a workers wages

Who re these people?

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