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ismaelywstoday at 4:30 PM4 repliesview on HN

Yep, if AI gutters the middleclass and small budinesses who you gonna sell to?


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5701652400today at 8:01 PM

+1. soon there is nobody to sell to.

Miner49ertoday at 4:33 PM

Well that part of the economy and anything that caters to it might just die.

The whole economy would be whatever AI/robots need: compute, energy, raw materials, software, data, etc.

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pixl97today at 4:42 PM

Why do economies need people? We look at the past and say 'People are labor', but what happens when people are no longer labor? Effectively people live on handouts from people that own AI, or the AI itself.

All those Greed is Good people are going to look kind of silly when a hand full of greedy people fight over everything and leave the rest of us for dead.

wiseowisetoday at 4:39 PM

You’ll be entertainers for the rich class. Teen prostitutes, jesters, and caretakers, while they live their best lives.