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minus-squareladlinkfedilinkEnglish0•11 months ago*Several steps later* Narrator: And that, folks, is how we got the Utopia we live in, by replacing all the work with AI, and letting people enjoy their lives
minus-squarer00tylinkfedilink0•11 months agoHaha. No. Nothing so hopeful. The rich people will get even richer and everyone that used to be working class and middle class die a slow death.
minus-square@Gutek8134@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink0•11 months agoNow I wander what would happen if only rich people would survive and I’m sure somebody has already written an sf book about that
minus-square@Odinkirk@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilink0•edit-211 months agoTook me a while to track it down, but I think this is the book to which you were referring. https://angryflower.com/348.html I make no cleans about the stances of this artist; I just saw this strip years ago.
minus-square@django@discuss.tchncs.delinkfedilink0•11 months agoLike the planet solaria: https://fandom.adminforge.de/asimov/wiki/Solaria
minus-square@MajorHavoc@programming.devlinkfedilink0•edit-211 months agoYeah. That’s (arguably) the background scenario to Asimov’s book “The Naked Sun” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun Edit: Ooh, Django already gave a cooler link to the same: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/10729278
minus-square@vga@sopuli.xyzOPlinkfedilink0•edit-211 months agoHumanity: yes, let’s replace all of the above. 100% unemployment rate is the only way to go.
Hedge fund manager: hold my beer.
*Several steps later*
Narrator: And that, folks, is how we got the Utopia we live in, by replacing all the work with AI, and letting people enjoy their lives
Haha. No. Nothing so hopeful. The rich people will get even richer and everyone that used to be working class and middle class die a slow death.
Now I wander what would happen if only rich people would survive and I’m sure somebody has already written an sf book about that
Took me a while to track it down, but I think this is the book to which you were referring.
https://angryflower.com/348.html
I make no cleans about the stances of this artist; I just saw this strip years ago.
Like the planet solaria: https://fandom.adminforge.de/asimov/wiki/Solaria
Yeah. That’s (arguably) the background scenario to Asimov’s book “The Naked Sun” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun
Edit: Ooh, Django already gave a cooler link to the same: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/10729278
Humanity: yes, let’s replace all of the above. 100% unemployment rate is the only way to go.