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My short response. Yes.

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[โ€“] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

marx talked about it. with sufficient automation, the value of Labor collapses. under socialism, this is a good thing. under capitalism it's a bad thing.

[โ€“] lunatique@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

What about under a technocracy? Sounds horrible

[โ€“] nutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

money would either become worthless, or would have to stop representing labor. you would have two distinct classes with zero mobility between them. im taking a shit

[โ€“] pineapple@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

THIS!

If ai takes all our jobs the only way forward is communism, otherwise the working class will collapse and the capitalist class will collapse alongside.