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Re:The Death of the Middle-Class Musician by fragmede on Sunday June 29, 2025 @01:14AM (#44410525)
Why keep any ships running other than their own? kill off 90% of the humans, starting with the poor, using robots, after robots can make new robots and fix themselves and do all the other jobs?

If we're looking at extremes, I don't think the ultra rich are in as bad a position as you want them to be.

Re:The Death of the Middle-Class Musician by ringeryless on Sunday June 29, 2025 @06:34AM (#44411933)
a lot of ifs there, most of which aren't really in the cards: aka laborless robotic self reproduction? seriously? if we have learned one thing in the last decades it is that complex systems need to be rebooted sometimes because <state>

silicone valley is grifting its own rich people with paper bomb shelters.

Re:The Death of the Middle-Class Musician by whstl on Monday June 30, 2025 @01:01PM (#44425544)
If there’s a constant in history about rich people is that they can’t even wipe their own asses without a slave/servant, so they still need the person responsible for pressing the reset button on the robot.