@palmotea: Doesn't matter. We're finally close to realizing the dream of making labor obsolete, or nearly so. Most of those kids are no longer needed, and thankfully those that are still needed can be paid more reasonable wages (lower ones).
Who's gonna buy the products and services provided by automated labor? What will prevent a hyperinflation, making savings evaporate? Or do you further envision a mass genocide of the poor to go along with this?
> Or do you further envision a mass genocide of the poor to go along with this?
When their savings are exhausted, the problem will have a way of "taking care of itself." No gas chambers, no guns, just capitalism.
@palmotea: When their savings are exhausted, the problem will have a way of "taking care of itself." No gas chambers, no guns, just capitalism.
No conflicts and uprisings? Are you sure? History would suggest people don't go down without a fight.
> No conflicts and uprisings? Are you sure? History would suggest people don't go down without a fight.
Uprising will soon be a thing of the past. We have cheap kill-drones now, and soon they'll be AI powered.
> We have cheap kill-drones now
But then there's your genocide, isn't it?
> No conflicts and uprisings? Are you sure? History would suggest people don't go down without a fight.
History also shows it happens mostly in young societies, not in those with median age getting close to 50. Old people are mostly concerned with extracting resources from young to keep their standard of life, so the latter won't just need to fight AI overlords, but their own elders as well, while being a shrinking minority.