Imagine this scenario:
- All companies start producing mostly using only AI and firing people, because people have no use anymore
- Joe spend most of his income on digital video games products
- Joe get fired because he got replaced by AI now, since AIs are taking over most jobs
- Joe has no income anymore
- Joe doesn’t have any more money to spend on video games
- Companies have no more profit, because people don’t have income, so people can’t spend on their AI produced products
In this scenario both lose, the company adopting AI and the worker. Am I missing something? Is there any possibility besides Universal Basic Income to keep the system running and not collapsing?
We’re already seeing a slow shift to more goods and services aimed at the rich and very rich. It’s what you expect to see as fewer people get control of more of the money. The rich are fine with whatever number of people being out on the street, as long as they aren’t one of them. The same reasoning goes for who’s business will fail because the middle and working class can’t sustain them anymore. As long as it isn’t my business, whatever.
Pretty much. We don’t matter to them at all.