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Mme. Defarge

(9,108 posts) Wed Jun 17, 2026, 01:18 PM 7 hrs ago

Please explain -

If humans are no longer needed to manufacture products and provide services, eliminating the cost of labor, how will people pay for those things and how will the owners generate income? For that matter, how would the U.S. government replace the loss of taxpayer revenue?

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Please explain - (Original Post) Mme. Defarge 7 hrs ago OP

I don't get it either hauckeye 7 hrs ago #1

Me either. OLDMDDEM 7 hrs ago #2

AI is a scam Bmoboy 7 hrs ago #3

Frankly, we're coming to a place where we need to totally reinvent our economic system... Wounded Bear 6 hrs ago #4

hauckeye

(812 posts)

1. I don't get it either

Reply to Mme. Defarge (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2026, 01:24 PM

7 hrs ago

OLDMDDEM

(3,327 posts)

2. Me either.

Reply to Mme. Defarge (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2026, 01:26 PM

7 hrs ago

Bmoboy

(684 posts)

3. AI is a scam

Reply to Mme. Defarge (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2026, 01:46 PM

7 hrs ago

In the Music Man, a town was promised a band made of their children. The plan was to leave with the money before everyone figured out the grift.

AI is a promise which requires lots of money and faith.

By the time it blows up, the zillionaires will be in their Albanian bunkers.

Wounded Bear

(64,788 posts)

4. Frankly, we're coming to a place where we need to totally reinvent our economic system...

Reply to Mme. Defarge (Original post)

Wed Jun 17, 2026, 02:24 PM

6 hrs ago

Our system of capitalism and wage earning is failing.

Things like UBI and of course totally socialized medicine and education need to be at least considered.

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