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I hear from the right and I hear it from the left and no matter who says it or how many times they say it, still doesn't make any sense.
Reminds me of this video in which Ben Shapiro is talking about climate change and sea levels rising and Shapiro says people living on the coast will just sell their homes and it flips to a guy chopping his way through a wall to say "just one problem Ben, who are they going to sell their homes too, Aquaman?"
I say that story to illustrate the point that if companies go to AI and robots and fire millions of people to grow their companies and become even richer, my question is "how?" Who is buying their stuff? Companies have to sell shit to become wealthy. If they fire millions of people, especially poor and middle class people, how do rich people stay rich?!?
If we throw out all the immigrants and make it too hard and too expensive to go to college because they want people dumb and compliant, who is going to make shit? Maintain shit? Invent shit? Its the whole reason why a movie like "Idiocracy" is funny, if not completely unrealistic. A society anywhere near that stupid would have collapsed long before that guy woke up to be "the smartest man on Earth ".
I'm not saying it's not their goal but it has significant diminishing returns issues.
Its not like the industrial revolution. We aren't retraining people in new technologies and processes. They are just firing people.
So what is their long term plan because beyond just replacing people with AI and robots, I haven't heard how that works out, long term, for anyone.
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