There seems to be a drift at the moment towards ai and machines taking over people's jobs.

I'm sure no robot would be stupid enough to want to be president or prime minister, but suppose for the sake of argument, ALL paid employment became automated, so no more paid employment for any human beings whatsoever.

I suppose all money in the economy would eventually flow to the owners of the means of production that is the human proprietors of the robots and ai.

So the proletariat would be left with nothing. The robot-owning aristocracy could buy and sell from each other, and the proles being penniless would have to go back to medieval self-sufficiency working the soil by hand.

Is this accurate?

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35 minutes ago, Gian said:

There seems to be a drift at the moment towards ai and machines taking over people's jobs.

Can you demonstrate that this premise is true?

2 hours ago, swansont said:

2 hours ago, Gian said:

There seems to be a drift at the moment towards ai and machines taking over people's jobs.

Can you demonstrate that this premise is true?

E.g. In the 19th century and earlier, when one wanted to build a tunnel or canal, tens or hundreds of thousands of people were employed to dig with pickaxe and shovel, in later years with help of dynamite, such as the London Tube.

Now you use Tunnel boring machine.

Tens or hundreds of thousands of people are no longer needed..

2 hours ago, Gian said:

There seems to be a drift at the moment towards ai and machines taking over people's jobs.

..and they need to find alternative jobs..

2 hours ago, Gian said:

and the proles being penniless would have to go back to medieval self-sufficiency working the soil by hand.

This is a very inefficient method of work. Without fertilizers, the soil is quickly depleted after a few years. Work on the farm is easy to automate (if you're engineer and computer programmer)

These days, if you ask many young people "what do you want to be when you grow up?", they will answer "I want to be an influencer"

Certainly more interesting than digger, but still silly TBH..