A cancer doesn't plan

We kinda have two choices:

Some flavour of socialism where people get what they need for free

Or

Turbo-rio-de-janiro style inequality where we all live in slums

Now the 2nd one is what the ultra rich want and they have a lot of power, so it's kinda on the rest of us to make the first happen instead

The owners of other robots.

The economy is already morphing to serve the needs of the upper levels of worth. Look at the trend with airlines shrinking economy sections and expanding first class and business class. Pretty much all consumer offerings are moving to the luxury tier.

I have a suspicion they are focusing on short-term goals, because that is what those people usually do. For example, it's probably hard to explain who should watch all the ads and buy all the advertised products when Facebook replaces their content and interactions with bot slop. They didn't think this through. This isn't some kind of visionary 4D chess. But it does not matter to them. When wasting 80 billion on a VR project that was doomed to fail from the beginning does not matter, nothing does.

Yeah, the "elite" aren't actually smart enough to figure that out. Elite is kind of an oxymoron.

We will be the stuff

Either we all die, or our owners will give us a few bucks to make a living (UBI style), but not enough to do more. We're fucked anyway.

It's okay. Elon said we'd all be rich thanks to UBI once the robots have taken over all the jobs. And Elon wouldn't lie.

/s

Thats assuming that complete transition goes unchallenged. I might be misanthropic, but history has shown humans can be fark'n stubborn

Thats not very “shareholder value” of you. /s

People should consider reading Iron Heel by Jack London. Written in 1908 it is considered a social sci-fi, reading it now it feels like he came back from the future to write it.

It's just gonna be the same 8 companies passing money between each other. Kinda like the Nvidia/openAI circle jerk. Us peasants will live in company towns, and be paid in company dollars that we can spend to buy food and water, from the company. Don't worry, they'll deduct rent straight from our checks.

Rich people mostly. But you can save your camp currency/scrip for a few years and buy some approved shoes or whatever at the work camp store.

The robots.

This is pretty much what the empires in the world war era were asking. They found the answer and it was poor, developing countries.

It's not that hard

Wealth caps. Worldwide. Start at something reasonable, say 10 million

Anything over that goes 100% tot axes. Nobody has a "right" to more than that, nobody needs more than that. No, you don't NEED three Lamborghini's, you don't need 20 houses.

Keep everything else the same, just a single rule to make a huge difference

Governments now will have enough income to fund a huge social net with free education, free healthcare, universal income so that people can spend money to keep the economy running

People now can choose to do some of the little work left.

On a side note: fuck these AI clowns for focussing on AI on exactly those tasks that make life worth living instead of focussing on the mundane shit tasks that nobody wants to do. Garbage collection still requires humans yet these shit stains claim that art andusic is now covered. Yay! Now we have shitty AI art and shitty jobs!

you will own nothing

who cares? that's not this year's problem let alone this quarter. this year, profits go up

It's illegal to look at next year

They will push the hard problems they create off to an unfunded government as usual. The only way I can see this working is by nationalizing the AI companies. The billionaires will balk, but millions of people with pitchforks can be a great motivator. The main issue will be if we allow these people to build robot armies, in which case this whole transformation becomes a lot harder.

People and land become "the stuff" and are abused and traded as they wish.

Rich will give robots money to spend on them to make the feel better

Theoretically if robots make everything, everything is free.

Hmm 🧐