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That'd be the dream. Unfortunately only the owners of all the AI production will enjoy that, while everyone else has to figure out a way to earn money and not starve by switching professions.

Exactly zero of that unlocked time/value will come back to the workers.

It simply can't work within capitalism. We've seen it before so many times that it's a given. It's a natural conclusion to this.

Textile workers don't get happy when a machine can replace them despite it meaning they won't get injured anymore and this brutal job will get easier. It's objectively a good thing, but because our society ties all our livelihoods to work, they have to hate the machine.

Given how low standards are, executives will layoff swaths of people for a crappy AI very soon. I'm genuinely scared of how our world will cope with that.



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