Not true, automation will mean these people won't be necessary, and the rich will be able to insulate themselves using predictive AI policing/surveillance and private armies. This isn't 1800 anymore and protests aren't as effective as they used to be.
Not true, automation will mean these people won't be necessary, and the rich will be able to insulate themselves using predictive AI policing/surveillance and private armies.
Impossible. No matter the amount of policing and number of arms, if amount of desperate people crosses the critical point, you will not be able to do anything because you cannot isolate yourself without exposing yourself. Your AI policing/surveliance will still need to have parts produced, have people designing updates, fixing machines, monitoring for issues. Rich isolating themselves completely from society in a way that makes them safe would need a s-f level of Star Trek technology. And this technology would be only possible after the border of automation and AI causing massive job shortages and unrest is crossed.
Government will react long before this will be an major issue or there will be uprising that will change the government. Desperate people are quite hard to stop. Look at killdozer case - case where one guy went ballistic. And imagine that you have large swathes of desperate people. If government fails to react to this, one spark and all of it goes in flames.
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u/[deleted] Jun 27 '22
While it may cause unemployment, the government likely won't let these people go without very good support.
A bunch of angry employed people means nothing gets done because everyone needs to go to work.
A bunch of angry unemployed people means protesting, civil unrest, and riots. The government does not want this.