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Coachtzu t1_j0ldxt5 wrote

I largely agree with you, though I think there are a few points I'm not as sure about. The first is that I think we are already seeing humans struggle to retain their ability to interact with live humans in the age of ever-expanding technology. My own experience as a somewhat angst young man in the workforce was that it was actually incredibly beneficial to have to learn how to socialize with people different from myself if I wanted to pay rent. I fear, that if we remove that pressure, there are a solid number of young people who would retreat behind a screen or into a virtual environment and never risk the perils that comes with social interaction. I used to coach basketball, and I was seeing it towards the end of my time in that field (around 2018) where kids had a harder time confronting and dealing with conflict face to face compared to when I started in 2010. I had a lot more breaking up of physical fights in practice, but a lot more cohesion than I did at the end.

The second is that we are barreling towards a point where humans are the product like you said, which I don't necessarily see as entirely bad if handled as getting paid to help other humans, but that likely won't happen. The big issue from a practical sense as well is that as we remove humans from the workforce, they will progressively lose the ability to purchase the product unless we give them purchasing power somehow.

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