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The real "doomsday" is the fact that we no longer have the population growth to sustain the increases that markets demand while simultaneously not alienating the ever-loving hell out of the labor and customers that capital depend upon for those increases. It's already leading to socio-economic and political problems.

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That's where robots come in. They replace the missing labor.

idk if I'm not naive enough or too naive but I fail to see how you can expect such a simplistic solution to just solve all the problems mentioned knowing the first, second, third, &co order effects

Politicians in the 70s were selling us the 3 days work week and retiring at 50 thanks to "automation", I fail to see how the "robots will solve all our problems" logic is any different.

I was being facetious. But now that you mention it, only half facetious. Of course there are multi order effects, any action will. I'm not naive enough to believe in what politicians say over actions done.

As long as the robots are paying into social security, I'm good. ;)

There WILL be a reset to sustain the new normal. What that reset looks like is up for debate.

"if you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on the human face, forever."

Sounds like the past too.

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