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And the tragedy of the whole situation is that they can‘t win because if every worker is replaced by an algorithm or a robot then who‘s going to buy your products? Nobody has money because nobody has a job. And so the economy will shift to producing war machines that fight each other for territory to build more war machine factories until you can’t expand anymore for one reason or another. Then the entire system will collapse like the Roman Empire and we start from scratch.

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thatKamGuy@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

producing war machines that fight each other for territory to build more war machine factories until you can’t expand anymore for one reason or another.

As seen in the retro-documentary Z!

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howrar@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Why would you need anyone to buy your products when you can just enjoy them yourself?

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- CosmoNova@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Because there’s always a bigger fish out there to get you. Or that’s what trillionaires will tell themselves when they wage a robotic war. This system isn’t made to last the way it’s progressing right now.
  
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