When AI takes all jobs, how are the taxes gonna be paid?
If the billionaire class doesn't think they need taxes or a workforce then what does that look like? If the population goes from 8B to like 5K + robots for the drudgery then all the problems go away - no more war, no more climate change, no famine, no large logistics problems.
I continually worry that these people in power see the rest of us as a nuisance to optimize away.
- Certainly the current population level isn't needed to support the current number of billionaires. Isn't there about 1000 right now? I probably eat more than 2 or 3 of them.
- What happens in 100 years when the billionaires have kids and their kids have kids?
That's a good attitude, if we all set out to eat more than 2 or 3 billionaires they'll be in our stomachs and out of our hair before you know it!