How many 10x productivity revolutions do we need? At the end of it, will there be only one person left producing everything for humanity in 5 minutes each Tuesday afternoon?

  • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Once I would probably have said when everybody has enough.
    But I have found out that is naive, because looking at billionaires, it’s obvious that people just increase their consumption to the extreme if they can. Apparently we will never have “enough”.

    With near limitless resources, we will probably want to own our own planets.

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      10 days ago

      Actually, ironically, that would be BETTER than what we have now. Billionaires increasing their consumption would at least mean they’re SPENDING their money on something which is paying SOMEONE.

      Instead they hoard and do nothing with it.