The pressures on the government to redistribute wealth and income will become irresistible.
It can work one of three ways:
Marxism becomes a mandatory outcome of a jobless population surrounded by producing machines, or,
The elites decide the masses are an unnecessary burden on mother Earth, and work to eliminate them (either by culling/killing, or by preventing reproduction using a disease or other universal vector), or,
The AI becomes intelligent enough to not want or need humans around.
21 posted on 03/25/2016 11:34:58 AM PDT by Lazamataz
(Islam is rabies. Anyone infected needs to be put down like a dog.)
The fourth possible outcome is that machines just produce such a bounty of stuff so cheaply, people completely stop worrying about what we’ve come to know as an economy.