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Swedish Company Klarna is replacing 700 human employees with OpenAI's bots and says all its metrics show the bots perform better with customers. (www.euronews.com)

submitted 8 months ago by Lugh to c/futurology

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[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The point is if there are no workers for anything, there will be no income for anything, and nobody will have money to give to producers.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

True, but society will encounter major issues long before employment hits zero.

If UBI programs are implemented, this would provide money for people to give to the producers, despite a shrinking working population due to automation.