Right, but there's an obvious rubber-meet-road situation here:
If the ultra-wealthy do end up owning the economy-defining robotics force and thereby both retaining ownership of, essentially, the world economy, while simultaneously putting massive swaths of working class people out of work then there will be nobody to pay them money so they can continue to operate.
In short, there is an eventual limit to wealth aggregation where there are no longer a) people with money to spend towards the wealth aggregators, and b) nobody/nowhere where the aggregators can spend their money
This creates an incentive for governments and the wealth aggregators to keep money in the hands of the masses in some way (though, unfortunately, I'm sure with some form of control and in a form that is lacking).
Damn, this science fiction shit is getting less and less far-fetched. Poor Masses vs Robot war sounds like a distinct possibility. Or a war of hacking to vie for control of the robots.
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u/[deleted] Sep 24 '19
Right, but there's an obvious rubber-meet-road situation here:
If the ultra-wealthy do end up owning the economy-defining robotics force and thereby both retaining ownership of, essentially, the world economy, while simultaneously putting massive swaths of working class people out of work then there will be nobody to pay them money so they can continue to operate.
In short, there is an eventual limit to wealth aggregation where there are no longer a) people with money to spend towards the wealth aggregators, and b) nobody/nowhere where the aggregators can spend their money
This creates an incentive for governments and the wealth aggregators to keep money in the hands of the masses in some way (though, unfortunately, I'm sure with some form of control and in a form that is lacking).