alt Hacker NewsThis is our one chance to reach the fabled post-scarcity society. If we fail at this now, we'll end up in a totalitarian cyberpunk dystopia instead.
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Manufactured Scarcity is the new post-scarcity
What? In what way does companies becoming dependent on AI chatbots will solve the world-spanning problem of resource scarcity?
The hell?
Just a year ago, Elon Musk was gleefully destroying the US government agency that provides food and medicine for many of the poorest, most desperate people on earth. He was literally tweeting about missing out on great parties to put USAID into the "wood chipper".
The tech overlords don't even want to spend a minuscule percentage of the federal budget helping starving people, even when it benefits the US. They are not going to give us a post-scarcity society.
Weird predicament you've set for yourself there.
Good luck with whatever you got going on.
I don't want to spoil it for you, but ...