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layer8today at 6:21 PM3 repliesview on HN

Who pays for that value, and from what, if all knowledge workers lose their jobs?

It sounds like the economy would largely reduce to the small minority class of independently wealthy people.


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simonwtoday at 6:34 PM

The more time I spend using agent tools the less I worry about knowledge worker job loss.

It takes a skilled knowledge worker to use these things.

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whatshisfacetoday at 6:31 PM

There were no knowledge workers in the middle ages.

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rvztoday at 6:34 PM

> Who pays for that value, and from what, if all knowledge workers lose their jobs?

They do not care unless these companies can get a bailout.

UBI only exists for companies that are too big to fail. Case in point, 2008 and SVB when there was too much money on the line.

One of the AI companies attempted to guarantee themselves a way for the government to bail them out if they were close to defaulting on the debt from the data center build out.

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