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by rspoerri 93 days ago
Why is it an apocalypse if people don't have jobs anymore? Why is it an apocalypse if the most intelligent being in the world isn't a human anymore.

It will be a major change, but only to people that see it as a thread to their existence - to not work anymore - are in real danger. There are tons of people in our society that are fine without working. We could tend to our children, we could tend to our elders. We could do arts and improve our world instead of competing and being better then others.
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ctoth 93 days ago
Every real-world example of material needs being met without economic competition (dorms, retirement communities, high school) produces vicious social hierarchies, not enlightenment." But this's a full blog post, someday, not an HN comment. Just for now realize that Star Trek is probably actually high school hell if you think about it for five minutes.
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GeoAtreides 93 days ago
> Why is it an apocalypse if people don't have jobs anymore?

because i need to pay rent? eat? not die naked in ditch when i'm old?

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_DeadFred_ 93 days ago
Because all signs right now are pointing to new locked in systems of control instead of shared prosperity. These companies were supposedly non-profits who were supposedly deep thinking on improving things but they can't even get a basic narrative/philosophy out of how things will improve and have instead pivoted to for profit.

Our systems of power are locked in caveman style thought and don't seem capable of creating something new, just applying new tech to very very old, very coercive systems of power. Gone are the techno optimist days replaced by the tech companies with enshitification with them explicitly stating you will live worse so that they can have more profit, and that if there is nothing you can do to stop them, they will cater to their worst instincts.

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sifar 93 days ago
Right. Technology is more distributed, empowering for the individual, however the power that wields it is stuck in a more feudalistic mindset and so we get this weird state where technological advancements seem more dystopian.
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