All of this is pointless if you dont have consumer purchasing power. Or unless the only thing getting transported are materials for compute, resource extraction and power.
reply>Who needs people?
replyEvery company needs customers.
Until we jump off the deep end and give machines the personhood required for them to legitimately earn and spend their own income (as opposed to managing assets owned by humans), customers are people.
Ergo, companies need people.
> Until we jump off the deep end and give machines the personhood required for them to legitimately earn and spend their own income
replyInteresting exploration of this here: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/pk9mofif2jWbc6Tv3/fiction-a-...
That entire story needs a customer demanding the widget.
replyWho needs people?
Clearly the one selling something.
(Unless they switch to the robot market.)
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