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Unfortunately, if we extrapolate from history, those questions will be answered with blood.

In the UK, home of the Luddites, we've managed to get through a lot of different economic setups by means of elections without much blood involved.

was that domestic, or foreign bleeding, tho?

a lot of reforms happened post-World War(s). after beating Jerry thousands of soldiers demanded better healthcare, for example, and promptly voted Churchill out

it just wasn't a civil war but boy howdy was there bloodshed in WW2

What a poor take if

"AI makes human labor obsolete"

Given comparative advantage gives a offramp to this for a lot of what we currently understand as "economics", if the author is positing that we will be beyond this, then your response is missing the forest from the trees.

There is no indication that the surplus extracted by automated labour will be distributed to the advantage of the population. If we look at how things are going at the moment and in the present, there will be a further concentration of power and capital. And I don't see any reasons why the billionaire class should give this up. You could, of course, give an argument why things are will be different this time.

I will repeat myself:

comparative advantage

[edit] I will further repeat myself:

If comparative advantage will not hold then that's really something, no one understands what happens in that future, proposing some random solution at this point is unbelievably premature.

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