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Comment by yanhangyhy | Hacker News Reader

It feels like ordinary people are becoming increasingly unnecessary. With AI, data centers, and big corporations, they don’t really need ordinary people anymore apart from their own employees. Capitalists only need robots and artificial intelligence to serve them, and ordinary people could just be put in zoos for display.

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>Capitalists only need robots and artificial intelligence to serve them

That doesn't make sense because robots and AI won't have money to buy goods and services.

True but they will focus their market on the every enriching 0.1% that will have all the money.

The capitalists realized that if they literally starve the working class there will be revolution. But if they produce enough so they can sustain (barely) rest of the people with 1% output while they consume 99%, it will be okay.

So don't worry, you'll have basic ~~income~~ soylent green.

People have already hooked up Stripe accounts to OpenClaw instances, so AI's currently buying and selling goods and services.

Capitalists don't care about money. Capitalists collect money for it's power in a capitalist system.

If they get "AI" and industrial robots, they don't care that nobody can buy their products anymore because they never cared about selling products in the first place.

Right now capitalists loathe that they can "only* collect a 10-50% return on the things "they build", and the rest of the value has to go to the consumer. They want nothing more than getting rid of that "waste", and just having their personal factories create whatever they want and their personal farms making whatever they want and we all just fucking die.

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