TheOtherKindOfDM
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Apr 15, 2026 9:52 PM
TheOtherKindOfDM
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KindaCHill
Can you make peace with that?
medimr
UBI should have probably been implemented like a decade ago.
Nukls
common people don't need capitalism or ai to thrive
they just need a warm, safe, dry, comfortable place to live
and the opportunity to make a living without having to pay for it
iChase79
Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution
--Stephen Hawking
IamIntoleranceIntolerant
What do you mean by "socialist countries"? Politically speaking, there are none. There are maybe five that identify as socialist, such as China, but they are also capitalist in some aspects.
mrthewhitee
Capitalism collapses without consumers.
If AI replaces workers then there's no one left to consume product. Infinite productivity with collapsing demand for products.
TheOtherKindOfDM
Hopefully, the collapse won't result in mass death... or rather any more mass death around the world than there already is
Clockworkdancerobot
The current billionaire class appear to be trying to regress into some sort of neo-tech feudalism. they know.
Turboslacker
Next they'll make robots that get hungry and then we're totally fooked
0053
They already made robots that consume meat for energy so.....
mksu
I think it's a reasonable concern alongside the development of weaponized robots.
TheOtherKindOfDM
How long until the ultra-wealthy decide they are so far above the law they can just raise a tower, kill everyone there, and claim the land? Why stop at a town when entire countries exist?
mksu
Why stop with countries when there's an entire world to plunder?
Eddyrock
Sounds like you need to go make your voice heard. Go rattle some cages and make the people with the money hear you.
TheOtherKindOfDM
Have any non-illegal suggestions?
Eddyrock
That’s the thing right, it seems like anything that truly makes your voice matter has been made unreachable or illegal.
Marches can be ignored, politicians can be bought, elections can be manipulated.
General strikes impractical too.
I set out to give an honest answer and to be honest, I’m not sure how to respond.
It would seem while we can speak our minds, all avenues of being heard are closed.
Make of that what you will.
DYLANLEE79
Maybe someday, but current "AI" can't. Mostly what I see it doing is helping people who don't know how to use specific programs do tasks that those specific programs are better for.
DWandRFaremyspiritbeings
For call center workers, that "someday" is really soon, like now-ish, and going to be really, really shitty.
DYLANLEE79
You mean the job that has been automated by phone trees for decades and EVERYONE universally HATES with the fire of a thousand burning suns because they suck at actually helping? Too late.
DWandRFaremyspiritbeings
Huh? I was just responding to your "maybe someday" statement. That day is today.
Also "too late"?...you think a shitty job can't get shittier? For the call center employee that is...Or are you talking as an end-user calling in?
Maybe you've never worked a call center job and can't relate. It's about to get much worse for those that do.
DYLANLEE79
I meant for the end user. All AI is gonna do is the same damn thing the phone tree does, just with endless minor unhelpful variations. So no, it's not a new thing it's an existing automation that will be slightly more lifelike but also more annoying.
DWandRFaremyspiritbeings
Ahh I understand now.
The image you initially responded to, and what I was talking about, was the employees.