Imagine this scenario:

  • All companies start producing mostly using only AI and firing people, because people have no use anymore
  • Joe spend most of his income on digital video games products
  • Joe get fired because he got replaced by AI now, since AIs are taking over most jobs
  • Joe has no income anymore
  • Joe doesn’t have any more money to spend on video games
  • Companies have no more profit, because people don’t have income, so people can’t spend on their AI produced products

In this scenario both lose, the company adopting AI and the worker. Am I missing something? Is there any possibility besides Universal Basic Income to keep the system running and not collapsing?

  • ForeverComical@lemmy.ca
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    People will accept lower wages to compete with AI… Up to a point… My prediction is that it’s going to make the wage gap deep enough that people will have to revolt. What frightens me is what comes after, it’s going to get worse before it gets better. Especially given the fact that people don’t vote because of “both sides fallacies”.

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      I disagree. I actually think that it’s gonna get worse before it gets worse.

      Seriously though, what comes after really depends on what faction within the revolt is more dominant and has more sway. It’s anyone’s guess.

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        14 hours ago

        The Revolution eating its children is almost always messy historically. Violence as a means tends to put the wrong people in power.

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      Right, all those Democrats fighting hard to protect your jobs and put limits on AI… The two bills they are working on definitely have teeth and do anything useful at all, it’s a fallacy.

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              9 hours ago

              Yeah, you’re missing the point where both sides are against me and I’m not voting for the “lesser evil” for your comfort.

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                It has nothing to do with others comfort. Voting third party in a first past the post two party system helps the existing two parties maintain control. It is an unfortunate reality.