The boulder must arrive at the top of the hill by 4pm or you starve. No exceptions.

Elysium and countless other sci-fis. Masses living in mad max squalor and a handful of thousands living in sci-fi luxury.

One more quarter of profits is all capitalism has provisioned for

It will soon come crashing down as the libs throw us directly into fascism by ignoring the left

Who will have the income to buy?

You’ve almost figured it out with this question: billionaires will.

• If prices go too high, most people can’t pay, so
• Prices go down, but
• Wealth has been massively concentrated amongst a small number of people, and
• If a pair of socks costs $40,000, one purchase can make up for thousands, therefore
• Robots which don’t need pay or sleep making basic necessities like food and clothing and electricity can replace the workers in those industries, and
• The economy can continue with many fewer participants.

So where does that leave us? Why, in the ground old chum!

To be clear, I don’t think this is going to happen for a while if it does, and it’s far from guaranteed. There’s a lot of enthusiasm around AI right now, particularly for the “Figure.01” OpenAI demo; we’ll have to see if that lives up to the hype.

what happens when products you buy are made by robots and distributed by robots with no humans involved. Who will have the income to buy?

And this is why I advocate for strapping up and getting comfortable with the idea of earning your blue laces.

Well at least we have a representative democracy with checks and balances, I’d be terrified what that kind of structure would do in the hands of an authoritarian.