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Re:Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate by coldtea on Thursday August 08, 2019 @06:27PM (#20649524)
>What will happen to a society where every single person has their basic needs met by some form of automation, and nobody needs to work?

Those who control the "means of automation" (robot factories, power stations, etc) --let's say 0.01%--, will rule over the rest, in gated communities and closed enclaves.

A small percentage of the population will live alongside them, in B-rated residences, to provide them services that, either still need humans or are better done by humans (e.g. sex), or its considered "classier" to have humans do for you (e.g. cooking). Let's say that's a 10%.

The rest 90% will be left to rot in urban and suburban slums, develop their own black economy, and shot on sight when they dare enter the rich areas.

https://www.amazon.com/Planet-Slums-Mike-Davis/dp/1784786616

https://www.amazon.com/City-Quartz-Excavating-Future-Angeles...

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Re:Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate by wedn3sday on Thursday August 08, 2019 @08:14PM (#20650224)
The irony of your amazon links at the bottom of the rant is delicious. Given the pessimism of your comment (not saying its wrong), Im surprised you didn't factor in how much the rich will invest in sex robots. Imagine if Bezos invested the same amount he's going to lose in the divorce settlement into human-like robotics. Brothels are illegal in much of the western world, but the first person to put $1bn into the sexbot industry will clean up, no laws against fucking a toaster!
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Re:Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate by Thorentis on Thursday August 08, 2019 @08:40PM (#20650351)
The other bleaker outcome is that anybody who doesn't support the needs of the 0.01% will just be wiped out since they no longer serve a purpose. Think about it: sweatshops will be replaced by robots, menial healthcare tasks performed by robots, garbage collectors, janitors etc. None of them needed. So why give them food provided by the robotic farms? The only thing stopping a mass population wipe out by the technocracy is altruism.
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Re:Uber Posts $5.2B Loss and Slowest Ever Growth Rate by selimthegrim on Thursday August 08, 2019 @07:31PM (#20650004)
Will be left? Come on down to New Orleans and take a tour of Peter Thiel’s cameras!
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