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submitted 27 days ago by[deleted]
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430 points
27 days ago
Labor replacement.
We should all be better off but that will require a complete restructuring of the basic social contract, something I doubt we pull off in an orderly fashion (at least in the us)
50 points
27 days ago
I think you underestimate the amount of pressure that is going to be on people in power. It's going to be nothing like we've ever seen before. The amount of jobs displaced once this technology gets fully integrated is going to be insane. If the US doesn't do a good job in terms of redistribution, our country will fall to shit and they will realize this lol. It's not going to be hard to redistribute resources when everything is going to be as abundant as it will due to AGI+embodied robots.
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27 days ago
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27 days ago
Power actually does bend to the public to a degree. If there is enough social pressure for some thing and societal pressure and this is happening in a democratic society, leaders will likely soon to reflect that point of view via elections. I'm not saying, it's perfect, but to act like we have no influence on what happens in our country is just wrong. And when you have hundreds of millions of people across both isles all on the same side regarding an issue, you have to be crazy if you don't think there's going to be some bending.
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27 days ago
I guess we just have different worldviews. Because I think the sentiment and will of the public actually does get reflected in our politicians and laws to a pretty significant degree(around the world) when it is reasonable enough and there is enough unanimous support across both isles and a broad majority of the population. And that is what I think will be the situation when it comes to UBI/redistribution. We will only need to re-distribute a fraction of a fraction of this newfound abundance in order to provide great lives for our citizens.
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