howrar@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Why would we need anyone to buy things? Remember that money is an abstraction for resources. If you can do everything with AI, then you already have all the resources you need. Whether or not someone else needs what you produce is irrelevant when you already have access to everything you could want.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yeaaaah, the issue there is that, that is completely incompatible with our current system of capitalism. If we do not take deliberate steps to transform the system, it will collapse.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 months ago
Good. The system is fucked.
Let it collapse and we can work on a new system without hundreds of years of entrenched rich elites deciding it.
NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Instead of collapsing like a phoenix and birthing a new better world, it will cause death, suffering, and turn us into some sort of fucked up techno fuedalism worse than we are now.
I understand the nihilism, but we need to take the broken pieces we have now and reshape them into something better, not throw them out hoping things become better for no reason. They won’t.
Deceptichum@quokk.au 2 months ago
There is literally death, suffering, and we’re heading towards some sort of fucked up techno feudalism today.
Revolution isn’t pretty but just as when we overthrew monarchs, the end result and saving of future lives justifies it.
Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee 2 months ago
It’s no less compatible with capitalism than any other economic system. The idea that humans are no longer needed to do any kind of work is an issue the world has never faced before.
sparkle@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I mean… it’s pretty compatible with leftist ideologies. Especially a moneyless form of socialism/communism