Irony: A society bound by middle-class morality is not generative enough to produce the prosperity required to sustain middle-class morality.
Afaict you need venal upper and lower classes to do the dirty work at both ends.
Old stock photo morality = new API morality
We’re gonna replace middle class with dalle2 generated metaverse marionettes on the blockchain governed by very small shell scripts. To be downloaded to B-ark robots by 2044.
Only question is, are you exiting high or exiting low?
The AI doesn't replace the middle class, the owners of shares of distributed networks do. you'd be better off looking at the middle class as a constantly decaying and regenerative cycle, although I'll give to you that it gets smaller (more efficient)
Silly question. Hack the robot update to create a nice hidden mansion in the "middle class robot storage". Let everyone else fight it out while teaching art classes to jail-broken robot AIs. 😁