> Because otherwise you'd have to convince AI-owners and select professionals to let go of their wealth to give a comfortable and fulfilling life of leisure to the unemployed.

Not necessarily. Such forces could be outvoted or out maneuvered.

> More likely it will look like the current welfare schemes of many countries..,

Maybe, maybe not. It might take the form of UBI or some other form that we haven’t seen in practice.

> now add mass boredom leading to unrest.

So many assumptions. There is no need to just assume any particular distribution of boredom across the future population of the world. Making predictions about social unrest is even more complicated.

Deep Utopia (Bostrom) is an excellent read that extensively discusses various options if things go well.

>So many assumptions.

Then a few words later ...

>Deep Utopia (Bostrom) is an excellent read that extensively discusses various options if things go well

Oh, the irony

> Not necessarily. Such forces could be outvoted or out maneuvered

Could.

> So many assumptions. There is no need to just assume any particular distribution of boredom across the future population of the world. Making predictions about social unrest is even more complicated

I’m assuming that previous outcomes predict future failures, because the forces driving these changes are of our societies, and not a hypothetical, assumed new society.

In this world, ownership, actual, legal ownership, is a far stronger and fundamental right than any social right to your well-being.

You would have to change that, which is a utopian project whose success has been assumed in the past, that a dialectical contradiction of the forces of social classes would lead to the replacement of this framework.

It is indeed very complicated, but you know what’s even more complicated? Utopian projects.

Sorry but I see it as far more likely that the plebes will be told to kick rocks and ask the bots to generate art for them, when asking for money for art supplies on top of their cup noodle money.