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by fixedd 4169 days ago
I don't really buy that a world where all the work is done by robots will be an issue at all, unless it's only going to benefit the rich.

I imagine it will allow people to work on what they want to work on, instead of what they have to work on. I, for one, would stop spending ~40 hours a week building software for others and build myself an airplane instead. Next? Maybe a sailboat. Sure, the robots could do it better and more efficiently, but I enjoy doing that sort of "work".

But what do I know, maybe not everyone is like me. Maybe it'll turn into Wall-E, or everyone just ends up sitting around watching Friends reruns, or most people would form street gangs and battle it out out of boredom.

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I'm firmly of the belief that will only happen if we have a basic income system, which I'm all for.
Seconded.