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Re:100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take o... by ssssvd on Friday January 24, 2025 @07:57AM (#42812648)
Property rights require legal framework supported by a legitimised monopoly on violence (which is, almost universally, a nation state). Disenfranchising people means delegitimising the state means wrecking the frame of ownership rights. That's probably the biggest conundrum ahead.

1. Capital owners need us as labour units. 2. Capital owners need nation state as the guarantor of their rights to accumulated capital. 3. Nation state needs us to legitimise itself.

AI/robotics kills (1). How the system will rebalance from here?

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Re:100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take o... by Kye on Friday January 24, 2025 @08:37AM (#42812873)
Someone will own and rent out all the killbots to people looking to protect their stuff.
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Re:100% Unemployment: on keeping busy when the robots take o... by ffsm8 on Friday January 24, 2025 @08:49AM (#42812978)
That would work until the first security incident, then everything is owned by the hacker. Albeit with some cleanup necessary to take out the expired humans.
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