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BrokenaRephlection t1_ir47oeq wrote

Damn, this is the wrong question. AI should contribute to the end of capitalism. Paired with robotics we should be seeing the automation of the majority of work we undertake. If this is achieved there are two general ways it could fall:

  1. The capital class profits on this with reduced costs which are not passed to the consumer. This less to a rapidly widening welfare state where the poor unemployed are dependent on handouts to survive. Without mass employment, income tax revenue plumbers and governments are no longer able to sustain themselves.

  2. Automation leads to the same outcome but is Co opted by state or non profit organizations and used to increase human well being overall. This leads to the end of the capital class and the creation of a new paradigm of human society underpinned by automated production of necessities and increased leisure.

The question we should be asking is how do we steer development to option 2 without class warfare and mass loss of life?

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s1syphean t1_ir4mih1 wrote

It’s the right question for anti-capitalists who want to make money off of capitalism’s downfall

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