Solid argument, but this problem is going to resolve itself because by then the planet will no longer be inhabitable.
Unlimited growth of the economy, more money printing and trickle down economics /s
By that point they can retire to a warm beach. The destroyed economy will be a problem for the rest of us.
They aren’t looking far enough ahead to care.
Their end goal is technofeudalism.
Das Capital has entered the chat
If they replaced CEOs with AI the AI CEO would be smart enough to figure this out.
Once the military and its supply chain is automated, the class genocide can begin.
This right here
Absolutely you can sell the fruits of AI labour to unemployed people. Give them a universal basic income and a product worth spending that resource on and you can keep your 1% profit while the rest is taxed to support the citizens economy. You’ll still be the richest man alive
I think it could work economically. But a world where humans don’t really need to exist to keep the economy going is a little concerning when the economy is the absolute #1 thing governments and the media seem to care about.
But why do they? Why isn’t human wellbeing considered more important? Actually IIRC the UK green party was looking to change that as an important metric.
I TOLD YOU ABOUT THE STAIRS BRO
I WARNED YOU ABOUT STATES, BRO!
Question:
How is Big Oil™ going to make a profit when the world is ruined and the population are dead?Answer:
Lol, don’t care. That’s someone else’s problem.Seriously. Why don’t care about long term plans, just short term profits
Of all the jobs, CEO is probably one of the easiest jobs for an AI to replace. AI is excellent at being heartless, gaslighting shareholder, and telling people what they want to hear.
I’ve been making
the oppositea similar point to my friends about growth from the opposite side of the spectrum, that it’s hard to imagine every person in the world a CEO.The capitalists are far, far beyond forgetting how capitalism… works.
Just… Henry Ford, pay your employees enough that wow you’ve grown your consumer base!
This is like macroecon 101 shit.
So, theyre either ravenously delusionally insane, or, they’re openly declaring themselves the new nobility/aristocracy for the neo-feudalism we now live in.
… or both. Could be both.
What if the Top 1%'s solution to climate change is to just keep going until 90% (or more) of the poors die off?
Then you can cut all your production and pollution by 90% (or more)
It doesn’t have to be all at once. Just let people gradually boil, freeze, drown, starve, die of thirst, whatever.
The possible answers to this question keep me up at night
When the rich no longer need us to operate the machinery, they will hunt us for sport.
Puts us out of our misery, frees up more water for datacenters. Win-win.
Everything is rich people selling to rich people now. Vegas, video games, PC components—everything. That’s the inevitable outcome of all of this. And then these assholes complain when the working class tighten their purse strings for their own survival.
