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by tonyedgecombe 64 days ago
That assumes the current high wages are here to stay. This seems unlikely if AI consumes most white collar jobs.
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Um, I expressly said that high wages wouldn't stay? If the choices are either being jobless and homeless, or doing some menial cotton-harvesting job while still being homeless, we got a slight social problem. The GP said that there's a lot of demand for menial labor. That demand only exists if you don't have to actually pay for said labor. In other words, it's not demand at all.