Well, how will those people buy the products made by those robots if they don't work? That's why SV and others are talking about Universal Basic Income, so they can keep the inequalities in an automated world.
Can you imagine thinking capitalism will survive a fully automated society? Like everything is done by robots, but some asshole trillionaire owns it all and decides what the robots make, and the plebs are suppose to be happy to get enough scraps to not starve to death?
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They won't. Human labor won't be needed to create wealth. Will have no economic value. Machines will do it instead. Owners will decide what gets produced. Likely luxury goods instead of necessities for the masses. I discuss this further here if interested:https://pradlon.com/2017/01/02/automation-and-inequality/ …
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I think you got your answer. They are increasingly encouraging our early deaths
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*causing
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why would they need us the plebs?
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For two purposes: 1. To buy their products so they can become rich 2. To be poorer than them so they can feel really rich and autoroute superior. If everyone was a billionaire it wouldn't be special.
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Sounds like a job for MadMarx!
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"get enough scraps to not starve to death?" replace that with "actually starve to death" and i imagine that'll be closer
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Automated guillotines on the other hand...
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