Comments by "oolong2" (@oolong2) on "Should Workers Fear Or Welcome AI?" video.

  1. The Zeitgeist Movement was saying this over 15 years ago.... Most of the workforce employed today is not needed to meet humanity's basic needs. We use the labor of poor and disenfranchised people to make food production, manufacturing, and construction cheap, but the reality is most of that can be replaced by automation, robots, drones, etc. However the capitalist class has no incentive to invest in expensive automation. AI is a threat under the current system because it's cheap so people can make money from it without requiring a big investment that other forms of automation require. As long as we have a system where productivity gains only benefit the capitalists and profit/growth is the only way of maintaining an economy then inequality will continue to rise along with pollution, poverty, crime, war, and everything that comes with fighting over scarcity.
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