How is the "world"? Why does the "world" have that power? Machine owners don't have the power, for example.
Even now the machine owners have enough power to change laws to their liking, bending governments and public opinion to their will.
The odd thing is that after the pandemic just showed what societies can enforce, somehow it all is forgotten again when it comes to who holds what power.
What is necessary are pretty basic killer robots with the capability of determining who is a friend and who is a foe. These systems already exist.
Labor is a commodity that has had a diminishing value in our current, capitalist system. That means, people who rely on their labor(most of us) instead of capital(a few), have control over less and less resources(this is already happening).
With the current trend, what generation of your grand children will have nothing at all?
Or perhaps, they stand to benefit?
I have no idea what that means.
> Why does the "world" have that power?
Okay, lets say "the environment". The universe does not care whether you live or die, so why are you so sure that someone will paternalistically care for you?
On what are you basing this viewpoint on?
> Machine owners don't have the power, for example.
That's because the world doesn't care about them either. So why would the world care about you?
If we are just talking about the physical environment then totally fine - a rock doesn't care about me, for example.
Humans tend to care about humans at least in some situations on average, though.
Look, I actually agree: humans do care about humans, on average. The problem is that power tends to concentrate to those who don't care about humans.
When almost all jobs can be replaced by machines, the owners of those machines are unlikely to be much different from Sam Altman and Co. They aren't going to sit down and say "Well, look, we have all the wealth, and means of wealth. Let's give everyone food, shelter, clothing, because our machines can do it".