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by letmevoteplease 8 days ago
"the future where robots do everything" and "unemployment" are the same thing
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Yes but unemployment where a small cadre of rich elites own the robots and the rest of us are serfs is very different from the public owning and benefiting from the robots in the form of strong social services and UBI.
The Jetsons vs. Elysium.
If everyone is a serf who buys the products that the elites want to sell?
This is a mistake in thinking that labor and sales remain.