[oompydoompy74]

Past, Present, and Future. If you control the means of production you win. Knowledge, skill, and experience are largely irrelevant to the conversation. I’ve held this opinion for quite some time and would be interested to hear alternative perspectives.

[Ferret7446]

That's clearly wrong, because capital doesn't just appear out of thin air. You are ignoring that there's clearly rare skills involved that enable a few to become very successful. Your strawman only applies to the second generation that inherits wealth, and case in point inherited wealth tends to disappear in a couple of generations further proving that skill is required to build and maintain wealth.

[lelanthran]

> Past, Present, and Future. If you control the means of production you win.

Yeah, but we were talking about only success, not winning.

In the past and the present, you could succeed purely on a combination of skill, talent and labour. This approach looks like it will not work much longer.

[lwhi]

I can see where you're coming from.

We exchange our knowledge, time, and skill for money. If this exchange is no longer viable — because similar value can be accessed via LLM agents — we'll have no way of making money.

I do think some (non-billionaire) people will survive the transition, but the question then becomes: what happens to everyone else?