I think we'll eventually get there, no clue on a time range.

It's a big assumption that most jobs will be automated, and even if they do there will simply be new jobs. For example, see what happened when ATMs became a thing.

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you first need to spend some time understanding what capitalism actually is.

It’ll probably change to something else if we can attain post-scarcity (or at least very low scarcity). It’s hard to say what that will be.

Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but it’s not like capitalism just came out of nowhere. Economists didn’t go to the economics factory and design capitalism, it was the progression of other economic systems and the result of various societal changes. Someone in the century before what we now call capitalism came about probably had no idea that it was coming, and I’m sure the average person in Adam Smith’s time simply knew it as the way the world worked without putting much of a title on it.

Why wouldn’t currency survive? Products, bills, services etc will still have to be paid for. And banking is essential for currency.

and the idea that a post scarcity society will end capitalism is silly. We grow enough food to feed the entire world at least twice over and food still costs money.

Something existed before. Something will exist after.

It doesn't have to be better to survive.

Idk… they don’t have enough resources to replace every human with a robot and have a space race.

If abundance keeps increasing at an increasing rate, we will eventually reach a post-scarcity society. While I personally think there will always be a market for whatever rare luxuries there are, I can understand the idea that banking and currency will struggle to survive in a post-scarcity society.

> If you do some digging you'll learn that until a EV reaches 125,000 miles or so, its carbon footprint is no different than a Dodge Ram 2500

Actual lifecycle analyses put the breakeven point closer to 21,300 miles.

>But here's the rub. Most EVs will need a new battery before then, resulting in even more of a carbon footprint

As per the above lifecycle analysis, even if you were to double the battery production to account for a full battery replacement, electric cars would still have a far lower lifecycle carbon footprint than gas cars would.

>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1E8SQde5rk&t=59s

The video description for that TEDx (read: not TED) talk establishes that it has been flagged by TED themselves for violating their content guidelines against bad science.

I just can’t imagine how capitalism will be replaced. What could possibly be better? I can’t think of anything

I think that, if we ever do lose capitalism, the system will do everything it can to survive and any change will be incredibly painful, even if necessary.

Not a great analogy. Simply training an AI model in the lab is of no danger to anyone. A better analogy would be banning the measurement of the height of cliffs because tall ones may be dangerous.

>GI or Artificial General Intelligence is in its nascent stage with ChatGPT.

Its nooooooooot ChatGPT is as narrow as an imagenet classifier.

>Flying cars

Its called an helicopter

Social media will not exist in the future. At it's essence "social media" is a data harvesting platform that takes your personal data and sells it to advertisers make money. Although it's going to take longer than we'd like, governments will soon institute robust data protections for users. When that happens social media will no longer be profitable. Remember, social media in 2023 has NOTHING to do with sharing pictures, videos, stories. It's 100% about mining you for your personal data and selling that data, without your explicit permission, for profit. That's ALL it is. Social Media's picture, videos and stories are nothing more than the medium through which your ad preferences are refined.

You clearly have literally no clue what capitalism is or how it came to be the dominate market. Before you worry more about this I sugest you educate yourself a bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMxazanoEVg&t=10s

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This is a good start

Submission statement: this post is aiming to promote a healthy debate about wether or not capitalism will disappear as a result of automation of jobs, while giving the viewpoint that it will not and explaining my reasoning. I am more than open to any counter arguments and welcome the possibility that i am partially or completely wrong.

Except his solution is all on the individual? How does he not blame you when his solution is directed at you

Did you read the article? He’s not saying “workers failed to be more productive “. The systemic failure he’s talking about is exactly what you’re talking about.

For the orbital ring? Not geostationary. Lots of little rings, say 10 meters wide, with attached solar panels, hanging stationary just 150 miles up, cabled to the ground. They're held up there by the momentum of the iron chunks, circling the earth at faster than orbital speed, each one deflected by the electromagnets of each little ring so it doesn't shoot out to a higher orbit.

Here's a video but that's a more advanced version that's actually solid all the way around the ring.

That's like saying you can't figure out how to survive jumping off a cliff til you jump. The solution ends up being don't jump in the first place and you slam into the ground

It's prrrrrrobably Ice-nine. Best not to bring that back to Earth.

Holy fuck you have to be fucking kidding me with this shit:

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Bottom line: It is now cool to publicly be against getting more of what you value with fewer and fewer resources. For many, productivity has become a bad word from bad people (wealthy people) from a bad system (capitalism).

Not only are we having a backlash against productivity, but the productivity paradox is also almost completely hidden from day-to-day conversation or news…

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How can someone so stupid and simplistic be shared? His entire argument boils down to "haters gone hate" I hate simps like you. The passive cucks who let the ruling class rape and pilage the world on the false dream that you may one day be one of them.

That's not how AI and the future works, these technologies are far too widespread and ubiquetous to only be limited to a select few for very long, and when they ARE only available to a select few, they are at a stage where they don't work very well anyways. Look at cellphones. It's just like that, but much faster.