Nope, “Gotta pull yourself up by your bootstraps”.

The USA is no longer the USA because the core values of people who wear and live by the flag have changed. Sure, the core values of the people profiting off of them hasn’t changed, but they have made sure to twist the values of the rest of society for the last couple of decades or so.

Do you really think that’s what this is, or do you have the self-awareness that you are trolling?

You forgot the part where companies suddenly and magically become benevolent and use their newly gained wealth to finance artist’s lifestyles. Presumably the ones that haven’t been replaced by AI.

Consumer societies need consumer - producer chains. They are where the “proletariat” can rise against the “bourgeois”. Automation makes it all obsolete and begins to taunt with the possibility of making direct chains between actual resources to the ultrarich. Societies are then an artificial construct that can be left to die off like horses and donkeys when they are no longer a participant but an encroachment to the environment they contributed to.

The problem with that is that either it’s privately owned or all taxes pass through a government that can make an authoritarian transition. Then people are left out.

Humans are the general purpose machine of trivial tasks, it’s literally what they’ve evolved for. Referring to trivial tasks as menial is purely a matter of perception, it can be menial when it’s work and entertainment when it’s for leisure. It’s ironic that AI came for the creative jobs that were supposedly going to be left for humans to achieve first, trampling over the IP rights that could have protected them. It’s a sign of things to come, and those things are not awesome.

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