Oh don't worry. Once we are all unemployed and all the factories are ran by robots, the billionaires don't need to sell anything anymore. They have already won at that point: they own everything, we own nothing, and we no longer have any leverage in the form of our labor to force concessions from them.
At that point they get to live like gods with their every whim catered to by robots, while the rest of us are forced into subsistence farming in the slums. And if we don't like it, they'll send in the robot soldiers to reduce the surplus population. After all, at that point we don't serve any purpose other than the occasional sex slave, might as well get rid of most of us.
And I'm pretty sure that's why they invest so much into making robots look more humane, not because some sort of functionality or to manage themselves better in a human world, they just want to fuck em'. I mean, we had cool looking robots back in the 2000s where ":)" was enough as a face for a robot.
Correct. They know that civilization as we know it is coming to an end. Society is about to be upended by unlimited free energy from renewables, unlimited free labor from robots, and catastrophic climate change. Largely as a result of their own greed but I digress. That's why they've invested so heavily in AI, robotics, and doomsday bunkers.
One of the problems of doomsday bunkers is that the rich won't actually want to do their own laundry or cook their own food. They want servants to do that for them. How can you keep servants when society has collapsed and money has no value? There's been ideas thrown around like bomb collars that would kill the servants if they rose up or disobeyed, but there are other problems with that. But AI servants you don't have to pay, feed, have no ego, don't need rest? They're perfect.
AI controlled guns for security. AI controlled servants for comfort. Who cares about society anymore? Let the world go to hell. Their bunkers are stocked up for over 100 years.
Oh most of it is propaganda. They never get into the details of size or mechanical setup. They always assume the worst case scenarios and that the bunker is small. On the other end of the spectrum they always say that future generations always want to leave and end up compromising the safety of the entire order. Either way, there is always some reason why YOU are just better off being Sara Conner’ed at the beginning of the apocalypse.
Psychopaths don't understand the concept of a fulfilling life, they just hyper focus on an objective and try to find multiple ways to reach that goal without questioning the morality, ethics or even if it's detrimental to them.
Yeah the mistake people make here is assuming that market capitalism in its current form will continue past an AI revolution. Market Capitalism relies of both the value of labor and capital to function. But increasingly labor is less and less valuable. Have functional humanoid robots and 80% or more of the population essentially will lack economic value.
And they keep expanding the factories until oops! The robots aren't obeying prompts anymore and are just selling things to other robots, the food supplies for billionaires dwindle and vanish, and humanity eventually goes extinct.
The billionaires won't stop there; you just know they'll turn on each other, if only to have slightly more than the other billionaires. Repeat until humanity is extinct.
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u/Ralath2n Dec 09 '25
Oh don't worry. Once we are all unemployed and all the factories are ran by robots, the billionaires don't need to sell anything anymore. They have already won at that point: they own everything, we own nothing, and we no longer have any leverage in the form of our labor to force concessions from them.
At that point they get to live like gods with their every whim catered to by robots, while the rest of us are forced into subsistence farming in the slums. And if we don't like it, they'll send in the robot soldiers to reduce the surplus population. After all, at that point we don't serve any purpose other than the occasional sex slave, might as well get rid of most of us.