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LinkPizza posted...
If my robot is mining some material that's hard to get, that material belongs to me because my robot mined it. So, you would have to pay me for it.

In which case, I won't use your robot, I'll use my robot. Problem solved, no need to pay you.

LinkPizza posted...
And the world starts to turn into one of those dystopian futures from different forms of media. I mean, it's easy to see.

The False Consensus effect light is blinking again.

Also those "different forms of media" you reference are all fiction. You understand that, right? Terminator is a story created for entertainment, not a documentary on the fate of the human race.

LinkPizza posted...
But because so many humans are still working, people still get paid. But only those working. There's barely enough jobs now. Once half of all jobs are gone, we'll have much less. And other jobs could actually afford to pay less since many people would jump at the opportunity to work any job for almost any amount, and people would be easily replaced. It just sounds like a shitty future. But barely anybody will care until it starts to affect them in certain ways. That's the problem...

No, the problem is that the safety net will need to be strengthened to prepare for a world where humans are still involved but there's not enough jobs for everyone to work. That's not an impossible premise, but it will require creative thinking and significant political will and direction, something that is sorely lacking at the moment.

LinkPizza posted...
And there's no real way to just do away with money. And if that was going to be the end game, then places where people make a ton of money won't fully automate because they lose power once they start losing money, or if money was no more. And they won't want to lose any power...

Whether they "want" to lose power has nothing to do with whether or not they will.

I'm pretty sure Kodak, one of the wealthiest companies in the world, didn't "want" to go bankrupt because of improvements in technology, but it happened anyways.

LinkPizza posted...
It will always be meaningful as long as people need it to get something...

Which they won't, because robots will be making our goods and providing our services.

LinkPizza posted...
You seem to think when everything automated, people are just going to start giving away their products. While that would be nice, people aren't that nice.

Again, they do it now. I've already posted a lengthy list of things you can get online completely for free. That is literally someone giving away their products for free.

LinkPizza posted...
And please don't act like I'm the one misconstruing arguments when you've been doing that the whole time.

This is "No, u!" number seven, by my count.

Do you seriously not have any response to criticism that isn't "I am rubber, you are glue"?

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