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More money for the boss, less (jobs and thus) money for the rest. Such a wonderful prospect.


That's argument against capitalism not against automation.


As I wrote elsewhere: save for a world revolution. Capitalism is a given, it's not going to go away. The degree swings a bit, but right now the tendency is still pretty "right" wing, so you've got to see the application of AI in that context. Anything else is at best day-dreaming.


> Capitalism [...], it's not going to go away.

And the automation is? We were getting rid of labor that can be automated in monarchy and in feudalism. Capitalism is no different.

Future with different organization of production and sharing of its results is imaginable. Future in which most people refuse to pursue automation is not.




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