• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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    8 hours ago

    If it’s a switch to a robotic AI society, where’s the profit gonna come from? The stock prices reflect expected future profits. If we have more work done by robots and AI, that work isn’t done by people, so people aren’t getting paid for it. Who’s gonna pay for this product to materialize these expected profits?

    • 1984@lemmy.today
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      8 hours ago

      Companies and governments are gonna buy robots, made by other robots. Typical scenarios include military, manifacturing, surveillance and so on.

      Today companies pay humans for those things. It will change as soon as robots can do a task.