It feels like ordinary people are becoming increasingly unnecessary. With AI, data centers, and big corporations, they don’t really need ordinary people anymore apart from their own employees. Capitalists only need robots and artificial intelligence to serve them, and ordinary people could just be put in zoos for display.

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DeathArrow 7 hours ago | parent [-]

>Capitalists only need robots and artificial intelligence to serve them

That doesn't make sense because robots and AI won't have money to buy goods and services.

	▲	wolvoleo 6 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		True but they will focus their market on the every enriching 0.1% that will have all the money.
	▲	KptMarchewa 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		The capitalists realized that if they literally starve the working class there will be revolution. But if they produce enough so they can sustain (barely) rest of the people with 1% output while they consume 99%, it will be okay. So don't worry, you'll have basic ~~income~~ soylent green.
	▲	fragmede 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		People have already hooked up Stripe accounts to OpenClaw instances, so AI's currently buying and selling goods and services.