An important element of economics that this ignores: if the maximal substitution of human labor with generative machine learning is achieved… who is going to fucking buy or invest in anything? Wages enable consumption. Kill wages == kill consumption == kill your profit margin. Everything ultimately rolls back to the consumer in market economics.
this post was submitted on 10 May 2026
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I get this sinking feeling that they are planning for the worst possible version of a post money world
Underclasses as feedstock for the AI farmers compost needs?
I don't think it ignores it, rather the argument is precisely that that maximal substition won't and can't happen.
The difference is a tractor did the same job better than a horse.
AI does not do jack fucking shit better than a human.
Wrong! LLMs produce useless garbage MUCH faster and for FAR higher costs than a human ever could, all while making middle management insanely horny.
Me, looking at all the horse furries: "I KNEW IT"
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"Why AI will not replace labour"
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Baseless assertion that some tasks always require humans input
Every fucking time.
Baseless assertion that some tasks always require humans input
It's really not that; it's about how spending and employment patterns have changed historically in response to increased automation.
Historical employment patterns which depend on labour being a smaller but irreplaceable slice of a larger pie. 0% of an economy a billion times the current size is still 0$