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We're coming for your doctors, your therapists, your programmers, your artists, your actors. Every creative, empathetic touch can be done better by software agents: the last app you'll ever need. All in service of you, the customer.

But what will the customer do to earn enough to afford these agents, and put food on the table?

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Seriously. It legit gives Ready Player One vibes where irl living standards are subpar for the majority and live in a virtual world to escape that reality/make life bearable.

His rhetorical questions are valid, but he really doesn't dig into the obvious questions everyday people want answers to, whether now or when shit hits the fan.

Personally, I'm quite pessimistic in terms of the government addressing the issues people will face in the near future, in a meaningful way.

I actually don’t know what I should do. How I should prepare, what the future holds for me or us. I worked really hard to get where I am and it feels like it’s going to all crumble soon, and people who are more positive about things tell me either UBI will somehow fix things, and humans will persuade what they want or that we will all be in pain together so I won’t be alone. That doesn’t help. It’s given me actual nightmares.

Humans will not tolerate the condition I describe. Inequality can only get so bad before it becomes intolerable. Learn to do something with your hands, it may well be valued in our lifetime -- and if the future is brighter than my dour prediction, the hobby will have been a salve which still has its own value.

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