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[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

*Several steps later*

Narrator: And that, folks, is how we got the Utopia we live in, by replacing all the work with AI, and letting people enjoy their lives

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Haha. No. Nothing so hopeful. The rich people will get even richer and everyone that used to be working class and middle class die a slow death.

[–] Gutek8134 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Now I wander what would happen if only rich people would survive and I'm sure somebody has already written an sf book about that

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Yeah. That's (arguably) the background scenario to Asimov's book "The Naked Sun" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Naked_Sun

Edit: Ooh, Django already gave a cooler link to the same: https://discuss.tchncs.de/comment/10729278