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discreteevent an hour ago

> they can do something else with their lives.

Let them eat cake.

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eru an hour ago | parent [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_them_eat_cake

That phrase was born as a straw man.

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jojobas an hour ago | parent [-]

The argument against "they can do something else with their lives" is not a strawman though.

In a hypothetical end state where the people who own fully-automated production of everything, and need maybe few millions employed to support and guard that production, the "freed" people are not going to do something better with their lives.

	▲	palmotea 25 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		> In a hypothetical end state where the people who own fully-automated production of everything, and need maybe few millions employed to support and guard that production, the "freed" people are not going to do something better with their lives. AI will bring about a post-scarcity society, just not for you, worker.