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Originally Posted by Irace86.2.0
Like I said, on a long enough continuum, we will all be replaced. You can buy a used 65'' TV for a few hundred bucks. You can buy a used car for a few hundred to a few thousand bucks, so expect robots to be super cheap. Many of the materials in a robot will not be very expensive. If cloud servers control the robots then the hardware on the robots might be minimal. Eventually everyone will be replaced in a socialist utopia, or we will work at competitively bread crumb wages in some unsustainable dystopian future that is likely to lead to class genocide and war.
The future is a UBI and rations at minimum to keep the masses satisfied enough to not revolt, or we will live at a time where productivity is massively cheap because of the robots and efficiency of scale. No one will need to work because everything is being done already. People are free to paint, walk, read, explore nature, enjoy life in a very utopian way. There is no point in contributing to society in any way because AI has already produced the solutions. In fact, the rate of innovation is so fast that it would be hard to even start production because the product would be rendered immediately obsolete the second it was made. It would either be a vacation every day, or it would be miserable. I don't know.
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Your post makes voting for (far) left-wing parties the only reasonable choice, where AI and robotization is heavily regulated by enlightened individuals.
Then again, I can't recall reading utopian content where free trade and minimal state involvement were the norm. Maybe there were onto something.
In any case, as lazy as we are, we need something to look forward to, and we need to exercise our creativity / craftsmanship. Most of us wouldn't last a year in a world where you have no goals and no need to do anything. Even our literary, philosophical or artistic work has roots in the everyday struggle.