Our current incarnation of capitalism is all about monopolistic behaviors. If these LLM companies do get to the point of being able to replace employees I fully expect them to stop selling shovels and start producing the gold directly, anyone else be damned. And, frankly, this has always been the case. If a product is built on top of another service it has a limited lifespan. Either the product will be purchased or it will be replaced by the service it depends on. How many "killer apps" has Apple silently absorbed into iOS over the years?

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satvikpendem 19 hours ago | parent | next [-]

And who will buy the gold? At a certain point everyone will be too poor to buy anything.

	▲	bigbadfeline 18 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> And who will buy the gold? Wrong question. The real question is "Who and what will they buy with the gold?" The golden rule is just the beginning, and no, there's nothing positive for the rest of us.
	▲	drakythe 19 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		No one. I do not believe this to be a good idea. I think its pretty awful and this whole thing, if it goes as far as they keep saying it is going to go, will spin wildly out of control and do an immense amount of damage to people. But the big money has been skipping Leg Day for ages, and that lack of a foundation will bite us all. Which sucks.

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Incipient 19 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean Claude IS replacing people. Even in Australia - Claude + postgres mcp is replacing data/bi people in even small and medium businesses.

	▲	xyzsparetimexyz 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		What did the bisexuals do to deserve that?