Re: AI is irrelevant
potentially past my aforesaid cliff edge.
Which is when (after some violence) you return to the historically "normal" state of affairs by re-instituting slavery or indentured servitude or workfare or dictatorship of the proletariat or whatever other euphemism you choose for compelling people to do more work than they want to do for less pay than they want to receive.
Until we achieve Culturesque freedom from resource constraints, achieving equality and the aspirations of all it will always be unsustainable because classes and hierarchies are integral to any functioning social system. Taken historically, the current levels of wealth equality in the western world are unprecedented. Rome, for example, had Marcus Licinius Crassus on the one hand (probably the richest man who ever lived) and chattel slavery on the other.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
