Re:Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I
by ehnto on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @07:27PM
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To sell to who? If no one has income, who buys the things?
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Re:Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I
by fatherzine on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @07:44PM
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Income can be generated politically, see e.g. Soviet command economy.
Re:Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I
by epolanski on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @08:07PM
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In Soviet economy virtually all people had a job though. In communist Poland where I grew, safe for the years of martial law in mid 80s everyone who wanted a job had one.
Re:Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I
by nemo44x on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @11:01PM
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In our modern economy everyone that wants a job has one. Unemployment is extremely low and has been.
Re:Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I
by epolanski on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @01:56AM
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That's only true of the US in this very moment, it's not a property of capitalism per se.
Re:Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I
by nemo44x on Tuesday September 26, 2023 @07:52PM
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New businesses will form. Why wouldn't they? We have a ton of businesses that even 50 years ago no one would imagine. We can continue up the pyramid to more and more things that wouldn’t be possible or practical today.
Your mistake is you’re looking at a future world in todays state.
Re:Rethinking the Luddites in the Age of A.I
by ehnto on Wednesday September 27, 2023 @04:58AM
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Why would they? There is nothing suggesting that there are infinite industries to be invented, once we have automated our core industries, will we all be working for superfluous industries? Seems far more naive to assume the status quo of total employment will continue due to some unforseen future of yet known new jobs, rather than thinking criticaly about the more near future outcomes of a much deeper automation of jobs we already have.