AI is the greatest technological leap in history, and the end of capitalism as we know it.
AI and robots will replace you a lot sooner than you think.
Tech companies are investing billions to replace you with cheap fully automated labor asap.
Bad news: Robots and AI will make your job obsolete sooner than you think.
Good news: It will make Universal Basic Income inevitable.
Amazon is replacing their warehouse workers with robots. Why? Because robots are faster, stronger, better, cheaper, need no healthcare, no breaks, no sleep, no vacation, they never complain, and never go on strike to demand a raise.
Robots like the ones in this video will soon be able to do any manual labor better than any human:
What do you gain by replacing humans with machines? More profit.
And we live in a profit-driven world. That’s why machines that do things better, faster, and cheaper are already replacing humans and will continue to replace more and more humans in every field.
In the past, when an American doctor took your xray, he read the xray to see what was wrong with you.
Then they outsourced the xray reading to doctors in India. They emailed the images to India, and the doctors there send back their findings.
And now those Indian doctors are being replaced by AI, because AI is cheaper, faster, and better at reading xrays:
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AI will replace more and more human labor tasks. Eventually AI will be able to replace every labor task, including creative labor, like painting art, writing, making movies, and creating music.
And at that point, UBI will be inevitable, because there will be millions of people without work and no means of earning an income.
Capitalism is not your friend. It’s a system that allows a few rich robber barons to exploit the masses as slave labor, for maximum profits.
When the robber barons replace all of us peasants with robots, we’re no longer useful to them as slave labor, and they won’t have any need to exploit us… except to buy the products their robots built.
In order for jobless people to have money to buy the robber barons’ crap, we’re gonna need money from somewhere. And that’s where UBI comes in.
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We are already surrounded by early forms of AI.
When you get a loan at the bank, the decision if your credit score is good enough or not to be trusted with someone else’s money, is made by an AI algorithm, not by a human.
Search results in Google are sorted by AI, not a human. Your Netflix recommendations are created by AI that learns what you like.
TikTok is so successful, because their AI learns what you like and is really good at predicting which video to show you next, to keep you watching for as long as possible.
AI can already program, design computer chips, write computer viruses, it passed the bar exam and could be a lawyer, can perform medical tasks as good as or better than doctors, etc.
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What’s the point of making AI work for you? Labor cost savings. Billionaires can save billions in salaries by firing all their human workers and replacing them with AI and robots.
AI can instantly absorb massive amounts of information.
AI can monitor all news that come out every day, and learn hidden information about companies that will almost be like insider trading.
AI will be able to predict the stock market better than a human. So billionaires will be able to use AI to make even more billions on the stock market, by being better at picking winners and losers than any human stock broker or market analyst.
AI will be everywhere and used for everything. It’s inevitable.
It’s a greater technological leap forward than the invention of the printing press, radio, TV, phones, computers, the internet, or cell phones.
AI will change everything. Including how we create art.
Absolutely great article! I've been saying this for decades. Current AI is weak, but new tech is coming soon to complete the revolution. A Guaranteed Annual Income is a necessity if capitalism is to continue. Well done!
Good one I enjoyed that very much!
I guess we’ll get to sleep longer and the state will pay us for that!
Good grief!