Fundamental Theorem of Robosociology
“Life is too hard” ≡ “Rewards of life are not worth the effort of living”
Cost of death imposed by society is a balloon payment on cost of life, designed to prevent de facto serfs from taking easy way out before robots are ready to backfill
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The robotics era will truly begin the day universal access to painless euthanasia is recognized as a basic human right. With no more than a few “are you sure?” checks and a waiting period. The great tragedy of humans is that the average human is still worth something.
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Ironic that in Futurama, it is Bender the robot who keeps trying to commit suicide. In some ways he’s the proto Rick of Rick and Morty. Not a genius but that same division-by-void nihilist exuberance.
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Suicide taboos are a cultural implementation of an economic imperative. Paradoxically if average human were worth less than zero, those who chose life would have much better lives. Negative expectations of average human are sustainable in postscarcity.
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This will be aided along by virtual doppelgangers of self prepared to live your best life in the matrix, surrounded by friends and adventure, once you are ready to shed your meatspace existence.
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One way to interpret that is to think of the value of humans to their immediate context, which voids with large scale economic factors at motion. We're partially there, as clusters of human tragedies are sadly worthless for the majority of all people(Venezuela's ongoing tragedy)


