[techdragon]

As someone giving money to a number of creators via patron… it’s been absolutely heartbreaking to hear them fall to adding adverts one by one like dominoes as the cost of living has kept rising.

Some have been able to make a living as a niche podcast host for years now but now it’s not enough… and they aren’t even in a field where they are competing against the AI art… yet (I struggle to imagine how pointless and devoid of meaning an AI generated podcasts would sound)

I dunno how long the house of cards can keep stacking up, but eventually it will collapse and we’re going to have to change how we do capitalism… or it will need replacement. If a 25k up front domestic robot with 1k per year maintenance costs, plus electricity costs (solar & wind just gets cheaper with amortisation) can do basic factory work, how many people from the bottom tier of society can have no job prospects before it collapses? The average IQ is not 100, it’s lower, 100 is the ideal, there’s a lot of people who aren’t going to get robot programmer jobs who would have been drivers or low skill tradesmen/general contractors…

I’m genuinely not sure what will happen but it just seems inevitable without the same sort of changes that will help Artists have a living while producing art.