[ericd]

Why do you need consumers when you have machines making most of what you want? Then you just need to be able to trade things with other people who have different machines and resources from yourself to get the bits you can't have made by your machines.

[astrange]

Where do the inputs for the machines come from? ex: having a machine that generates CPUs out of sand and works for free would mean cheaper CPUs, but it would also mean a lot more employment in the sand industry, and there might not be a machine for creating sand.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

[ericd]

Large mining robots? Some dump trucks are already autonomous, I'm guessing excavators aren't far.

[astrange]

Do they stop being autonomous when they get a flat tire?

[ericd]

Currently, yeah, but people will certainly work down the priority chain.

[pkaye]

So you are saying everyone will have those machines?

[passion__desire]

Nope. He is saying power concentration will increase further. This is also Yuval Noah Harari's thesis. You can read about how that will get achieved here.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/10/yuval-n...