On 10/18/2020 1:38 AM, xxxxxx@gmail.com wrote:
> Indeed.
>
> The whole notion of a privileged wealthy fraction leading lives of
> opulence while the rest struggle to survive is and has been around for a
> long time. Brave New World, Elysium, The 3%ers, and many more.
>
> There are reasons some folks like Stephen Hawking called out the risks
> of AI.
>
> Bleak indeed.

Longer than that; that's simply the default state of affairs for most of
human history.  Better technology allows new wrinkles, however - like
the increasing replacement, and ultimate
irrelevance/obsolescence/redundancy, of human labor.  At which point,
the Owners will simply have no use for the other 99.9etc percent of us...

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