you're conflating income with wealth. as programmers many of us have good salaries, but if those went away we'd have to dig ditches like everyone else.
miss me with the .1% salary stuff -- income is not wealth.
Re:A16Z: AI Avatars
by lenerdenator on Friday April 11, 2025 @05:39PM
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> if intelligence is truly commodified, we are effectively post-scarcity or very close to something resembling it.
We'll never be effectively post-scarcity.
There are people who are banking on scarcity.
it seems hard to justify like continued massive material deprivation for tons of people in the world on the basis of ‘who am i’ ego for the top like 0.2% income earners globally.