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I can't say I know what the future economy will look like, but I can say for certain it won't just be the current one minus 99% of jobs (with all those previously employed people living in abject poverty). Capitalism doesn't work without customers. Capitalism doesn't work without scarcity. Capitalism depends on a minimum money velocity where paradoxically if you collect 100% of the money, it becomes completely worthless.

To me, it seems guaranteed that will be drastic changes. There will be many attempts at new ways of organizing society with successes and failures along the way. Not out of altruism or desire to share but out of self-interest of those who collect the power afforded by AI and automation.



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