Pro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agoIf AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then?theconversation.comexternal-linkmessage-square59fedilinkarrow-up1126arrow-down116file-text
arrow-up1110arrow-down1external-linkIf AI takes most of our jobs, money as we know it will be over. What then?theconversation.comPro@programming.dev to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 5 days agomessage-square59fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareFlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·4 days agoI think that, in a world where legal systems have collapsed completely and billionaires have survived, I don’t think labor will be a matter of choice anymore. I think they’d turn to slavery and likely already have designs on how they’d do it.
minus-squaretankplanker@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·4 days agoBut how do you pay the overseers to enforce it when money is no longer valid? And the overseers are bigger and tougher than your average billionaire? Slavery only works when there is money to pay the overseers and a legal system to protect the owner class from being extorted by the overseers. ICE is in a similar boat and they have to pay significant amounts to attract people to carry out ICE fascism.
minus-squareFlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 days agoCould be you’re right. I don’t know, and I hope I don’t live to find out.
I think that, in a world where legal systems have collapsed completely and billionaires have survived, I don’t think labor will be a matter of choice anymore. I think they’d turn to slavery and likely already have designs on how they’d do it.
But how do you pay the overseers to enforce it when money is no longer valid? And the overseers are bigger and tougher than your average billionaire?
Slavery only works when there is money to pay the overseers and a legal system to protect the owner class from being extorted by the overseers.
ICE is in a similar boat and they have to pay significant amounts to attract people to carry out ICE fascism.
Could be you’re right. I don’t know, and I hope I don’t live to find out.