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Re:Strategic Wealth Accumulation Under Transformative AI Exp... by jsemrau on Saturday February 22, 2025 @01:21AM (#43136569)
Accelerationists believe in a post-scarcity society where the cost of production will be negligible. In that scenario, and I am not a believer, consumer demand would be independent of wages.
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Re:Strategic Wealth Accumulation Under Transformative AI Exp... by riffraff on Saturday February 22, 2025 @01:38AM (#43136653)
That makes wealth accumulation pointless so the whole article makes no sense either, right?

Tho I guess even post scarcity we'd have people who care about hoarding gold-pressed latinum.

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Re:Strategic Wealth Accumulation Under Transformative AI Exp... by otabdeveloper4 on Saturday February 22, 2025 @02:44AM (#43137023)
> consumer demand would be independent of wages

That's the literal actual textbook definition of "communism".

Lmao that I actually lived to see the day when techbros seriously discuss this.

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Re:Strategic Wealth Accumulation Under Transformative AI Exp... by bawolff on Saturday February 22, 2025 @03:06AM (#43137146)
> Lmao that I actually lived to see the day when techbros seriously discuss this.

People have been making comparisons between post scarcity economics and "utopia communism" for decades at this point. This talking point probably predates your birth.

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Re:Strategic Wealth Accumulation Under Transformative AI Exp... by doubleyou on Saturday February 22, 2025 @03:30AM (#43137258)
communism is a universally accepted ideal
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Re:Strategic Wealth Accumulation Under Transformative AI Exp... by farts_mckensy on Saturday February 22, 2025 @12:20PM (#43140919)
That is not the "textbook definition" of communism. You have no idea what you're talking about.
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Re:Strategic Wealth Accumulation Under Transformative AI Exp... by farts_mckensy on Saturday February 22, 2025 @12:21PM (#43140926)
In that scenario, wages and money in general would be obsolete.
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