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Yeah, we don't need people to work. This will incentivize people to automate work where possible. The ideal world is everything is automated and EVERYONE benefits, vs what we have now: much is automated and the rich benefit while others have to work shit jobs or die.


Automate everything? Who builds and repairs the robots?

And who gets stuck with that job when everyone else doesn’t have to work?


I'll do it. Building robots sounds dope. I'd imagine a good chunk of people on HN would love to live in a post scarcity society where they can spend their time building and repairing robots.


Thanks for volunteering! Gonna need you to come in for a 12 hour day since no once else is available. It’s your spouses birthday? That sucks. Maybe next year!

Sounds like a gun to your head.


If that's your conditions I'll quit because I'm not desperate for the job... because of UBI


So now we’re stuck again - who repairs the robots?


If everything is automated, there would be no repair jobs as robots would self-repair.


Who repairs the self-repair robots when they need repair?


I'm as skeptical as you are, but presumably if we could make robots that were capable of repairing themselves, they could also repair other robots?


They could repair themselves.


This is so distant in the future that it’s almost not worth the discussion.

Maybe we can pick this up 100 years from now.


Well my question is: Is this the goal? Or do we want one person to own all of the means of production, and have everyone else get nothing?


The robots will paper clip everything before then.




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