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by Swizec 846 days ago
> what to do with an entire civilization of meatbags that suddenly become cost in-effective

Services! All sorts of things are going to become cost-effective that currently aren't.

Want a personal trainer? Motivational coach? Someone to sit next to you slapping your phone out of your hands every time you open social media? Personal runner doing errands? You can afford that now!

We're going to have an ever-shrinking pool of highly critical un-automatable people with an army of support folk keeping them running at peak productivity at all times.

You already see this trend in people who think of themselves as a business. They hire everyone from personal assistants to nannies. All in the name of "Well I make $200/h and there's this chore that costs only $50/h to delegate ..."