AI’s evangelists are promising a future of almost unimaginable prosperity. There’s good reason to be sceptical.
  • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 days ago

    I think that, in a world where legal systems have collapsed completely and billionaires have survived, I don’t think labor will be a matter of choice anymore. I think they’d turn to slavery and likely already have designs on how they’d do it.

    • tankplanker@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      But how do you pay the overseers to enforce it when money is no longer valid? And the overseers are bigger and tougher than your average billionaire?

      Slavery only works when there is money to pay the overseers and a legal system to protect the owner class from being extorted by the overseers.

      ICE is in a similar boat and they have to pay significant amounts to attract people to carry out ICE fascism.