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Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? by AnthonyMouse on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @02:47AM (#46299292)
> but now I don't have a job so I can't afford even a basic apartment what do we do with our society?

Apartments aren't land, they're buildings. Buildings can be made arbitrarily tall; if we built tall buildings we'd have more housing units than people long before we ran out of land.

So if there is a machine that can build buildings for free, apartments should be cheap. If there isn't a machine that can build buildings for free, get a job building buildings for money.

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Re:If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes? by llsf on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @07:39PM (#46307594)
Not really worry about having enough land.

Even if 100% automated, there might still be a residual cost to building as it needs energy (assuming than raw material is free). I do not think that because the building would be not free, it would allow human to compete (too slow, inaccurate, etc.)

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