Reminds me of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_Crash or maybe the Zoey Ashe series
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Have a hard time imagining that capital owners would rather pay workers to supervise AI than make the courts look the other way when a self-driving truck creates accidents ...
Maybe it could be a single person monitoring 10 autonomous trucks from a remote control center
That would be easier if they attached the trucks to each other.
Bingo. Simply look to the military for the future. Kids sitting in a comfortable location in California dropping bombs on children overseas.
At some point it probably becomes more valuable to offer jobs that barely keep people alive than it does to deal with the sheer number of unemployed people who are now ready to burn everything down.
Then again, capitalism has never been good at externalities.
I expect a resurgence of jobs like "servant" and "shoe-shiner". You don't need these, either, but this way capitalists can lord their wealth over the masses face-to-face.
Not sure they want that face-to-face with people that far below them. Too easy for any one of them to Luigi.
This is part of the equation that they've proven themselves consistently awful at assessing properly.
There was this guy who did a bunch of interviews with super wealthy people about their apocalypse shelter plans, and he was like "What stops all the poors from killing you and taking your stuff?"
And they're like "Oh, we have ex-Navy SEAL private security details, we're good."
So the guy asks them "What stops the SEALs from killing you and taking your stuff?"
They were stumped. Not a one of them had a good answer. Like, one guy floated having the only password to the vault where all the supplies are kept, as if Navy SEALs don't know how to torture information out of someone. Waterboarding was that guy's best case outcome.
They really, really don't understand that they need us, but we don't need them. And the only thing keeping them alive is that we haven't really figured that out yet either.
Give it a couple generations of malnutrition and genetic damage. Those lower classes will look like toasters and microwaves. Ez to face.
Probably they do both. The paid drivers are a bit of a side-project to get government subsidies for 'job creation' and such.
The most terrifying part is people being forced to drink beer instead of water, they'd be dropping like flies because of dehydration.
Historically, as I understand it, what they would drink would be pretty weak ABV. 2-3%. Barely beer at all. It'd be plenty hydrating.
You can keep hydrated from alcoholic drinks up to around 10% alcohol. Of course you'll be drunk as fuck all the time is it had more than around 3%.
Seems like a win.
I've heard anything under 4% is actually hydrating. That comes with no source though.
Welcome to colonial America
That's truly fascinating, it never occurred to me, but low alcohol beverages could be way safer than untreated water.
My understanding is that weak beer was the source of people's water intake for most of human history.