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First of all, it's kind of stupid to respond to a futuristic hypothetical with "well that won't happen for awhile". Like, fine. Scale up the timetable then. Let's talk about what happens 1000 years from now. If it's possible and/or likely to happen eventually it's worth talking about. Second, I think "post work society" is a bit of an oversimplification, maybe? Like, yes, we will probably get to the point where humans are no longer needed to run cash registers or even drive cars, but I think there are jobs like "person who decides who to provide land grants to" that we'll never trust to be automated. So the only jobs we'll eliminate are ones involving unskilled drudgery. I think UBI is the workable fix to this, though, as the alternative is just living with 20% or whatever unemployment. The real concern for me, though, happens long before we get perfect AI that runs everything and does every job. Without significant reforms in how businesses are structured and interact with the rest of society, what we'll inevitably face is the couple trillion-dollar companies that own the robots and hold patents on all the relevant tech and then a good half society with no money combined with a government too emaciated to help them. Taxes on the mega-rich need to rise, loopholes need to close, and robust social safety net programs need to be instated with the resulting revenue to counter this before it hits and the evil version of Elon Musk becomes de facto dictator of Earth.
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