[hamdingers]

Fully automated luxury space fascism doesn't really need buyers. A risk of high automation/post-scarcity is that abundance exists but remains under the control of people who are not interested in justice or equality or freedom. Lots of people feel that describes the leadership of most AI tech companies.

If they don't need your labor, and they don't need you as a customer, and they don't care about you as a person... where does that leave you?

[to be clear, I think post-scarcity, even in knowledge work, is a lot further off than most ai-doomsayers or ai-worshipers who take statements from people like Altman and Musk at face value]

[general1465]

But that also assume that peasants do not have agency and won't trigger another French Revolution.

[wolvesechoes]

> But that also assume that peasants do not have agency and won't trigger another French Revolution

Look at the median age of French society during the French Revolution and the current one.

Who is going to trigger another French revolution? Old people coughing their lung out?

[bluecheese452]

They may they may not. The nobility has learned a lot in the past 200+ years. Powerful propaganda machines, powerful weaponry, and a small group of loyalists have proven extremely effective at controlling large populations.

[archagon]

They won’t say it in public, but I imagine they’re betting on swarms of automated slaughterbots protecting them when things truly go to shit.