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I started to notice a intense automation and Artificial Intelligence Investments from companies and that made me wonder, what would happen or what should be done with the people who can't be trained for a new job and can't use his current skills to to get a job.

How would he live or what would he do in life? More importantly, what should be done with him to make him useful or at least neutral rather than being a negative on the society?

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[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 66 points 1 day ago (3 children)

If you're a sociopath, let them suffer and die slowly, homeless.

If you're not a sociopath, and decent, tax the rich and give them a good UBI so they can play and do art or music or video games or what the hell ever.

Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

[–] I_Has_A_Hat@lemmy.world 4 points 15 hours ago

Suffer and die slowly? Where's the profit in that? Now organ farms, THERES a moneymaker!

[–] MyDarkestTimeline01@ani.social 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Agreed, honestly. Because if you eliminate 60% of the workforce you also eliminate 60% of your customers. And if people aren't spending money the economy isn't moving.

[–] TauZero@mander.xyz 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In theory, the rich can just continue paying off each other spending money on rich people stuff. 80% of the economy consisting of activities like robot-staffed billionaire-owned construction companies making and selling super-yachts to oil billionaires, who made their fortune selling fuel to space tourism companies ferrying billionaire designer bag heiresses to the Moon. The rest of us can starve to death and the economy won't even blink.

[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 2 points 15 hours ago

Your statement is mostly false, despite your valid examples. Wealth/income requires people/consumers. Phones/computers are cheap because billions can afford it. Food profits is a function of people. Autos definitely require scale, that is far more efficient than a humanoid robot doing flexible "manual" labour.

At the same time, however, not requiring slaves does motivate genocide instead of just sharing wealth with the slaves. It's better to exterminate humanity than to deal with slave class uppitiness.

[–] SatansMaggotyCumFart@lemmy.world 5 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

If you make them comfortable how do you recruit people for the army?

[–] NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Make federal service required for anyone to obtain "full citizenship".

"Would you like to know more?"/s

[–] raynethackery@lemmy.world 2 points 57 minutes ago

I'm switching to the side of the bugs.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 2 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

~~Robots~~

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