A post-labor world is necessarily a post-capital world. It is pretty impressive that the only way we can envision this happening is by inventing a species of robots that somehow concurrently A.) have all the same reasoning and functioning capabilities as humans and B.) are completely subservient to humans to perform labor. Specifically addressed to TFA: you are already part of the permanent underclass.
I'm not sure I believe in this, but I certainly want to.
There is a certain logic to this, and it's not certain it won't go this direction. But creating a solid society for the masses so they don't revolt isn't what most of the out of touch tech billionaires aspire to, from their own public comments.
A post-labor world is necessarily a post-capital world. It is pretty impressive that the only way we can envision this happening is by inventing a species of robots that somehow concurrently A.) have all the same reasoning and functioning capabilities as humans and B.) are completely subservient to humans to perform labor. Specifically addressed to TFA: you are already part of the permanent underclass.
There will be no underclass, because the ultra rich will simply let them die.
I'm not sure I believe in this, but I certainly want to.
There is a certain logic to this, and it's not certain it won't go this direction. But creating a solid society for the masses so they don't revolt isn't what most of the out of touch tech billionaires aspire to, from their own public comments.