[throwaway5959]

How does capitalism work if there aren’t any workers to buy the products made by the capitalists? Not being argumentative here, I really want to know.

[impossiblefork]

The way it works in any country where workers can't afford to buy the products today, so I imagine as in those countries that function most like the stereotypical African developing country.

So I imagine that the result would be that industry devolved into the manufacturing of luxury products, in the style of the top-class products of ancient Rome.

[SamoyedFurFluff]

The machines can buy the products. We already have HFT, which obviously has little to do with actual products people are buying or selling. Just number go up/down.

[singleshot_]

If a machine buys a product from me and does not pay, whom should I sue?

That is the person who actually made the purchase.

[austhrow743]

Transfer payments, rent, dividends would provide income. People would then use it to buy things just like they do now.

[lrvick]

All that matters are quarterly profits.

[Atotalnoob]

Honestly don’t know if these kinds of people have thought that far ahead