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Automation will collapse wages but raise living standards: As AI and robotics replace all labor, human wages will fall—but productivity and wealth will soar, leading to better health, abundance, and comfort.
Historical parallel—child labor’s decline: Just as industrial automation freed children from farm work and shifted society toward education, future automation will free adults from economic necessity, redefining “work.”
AI as the new labor force: Trillions of digital workers could multiply global GDP many times over, making each human comparably wealthy—like Qatari citizens supported by a huge migrant workforce.
Redistribution will likely spread prosperity: Past trends and political realities suggest wealth from full automation will be broadly, though unequally, shared through asset ownership and social programs.
Post-scarcity future: Humanity may enjoy radical technologies—mind uploading, fusion power, genome control, and disease reversal—ushering in an era of leisure, health, and creativity beyond today’s imagination.
Friday: Oliver picks 44 kiwis. Saturday: Oliver picks 58 kiwis. Sunday: He picks double the amount he picked on Friday: 44x2=88 44×2=88 kiwis. Now, we sum all the kiwis: 44+58+88=190 Since the size of five kiwis on Sunday doesn’t affect the total count, Oliver still has: 190 kiwis.
For example, stop eating at 4pm, and you'll more easily wake up at 6am the next day. Do this for a couple days and you'll find yourself on the flipped the scheduled.
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