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I try to pay well, but it's tough because different countries have different cost of life/income expectations. If I pay $8/hr in the US, I am an asshole and it's illegal in many states. If I pay the same in many countries, am I a generous hero? Shall I differentiate by country? But why, it is the same work!

Should I pay $15/hr all over the world? Is it fair to pay those lucky ones an extra $5-7/hr for no particular reason, or to give that $5 to their respective country via taxes that all can share (healthcare, education, retirement)? Or should I increase my profits, and give it back to the US people through more taxes?

And when AI can do their job, then what? I keep them busy for no reason? Who makes the extra money, only me?

That's very possible. The hard question is "then what?"

If you remove the market economy and ability for people to make money, take initiative and be rewarded for it, and go instead to a pure socialist model/goal, that goes so much against so many human instincts, that it will be hard to have people buying into it. As history shows. And it won't remove AI.

What new system do we propose, or how do we modify the current one, in a globalized, AI-powered world?

Exactly. I make most of the money, not them. And the day I reduce their hours significantly because I bring AI into the platform -and one day I will-, I will make even more, and they will make even less.

I don't think I am individually wrong to pay market rate for their work, and keep the surplus, but the bigger question is, while nobody is wrong, including AI, where are we going as a society? What will be the consequences?

I run a business where I hire remote people to do fairly basic tasks. I can pay them cheaply, replace them easily when they don't fit anymore. I am the "platform" and I extract the surplus.

So I feel the article has very valid points... and I am on the "ruling capitalists" side of my little world.

In order to sleep at night, I am just trying not to be an asshole, and to be decent in the way I pay and behave. But as a society, we cannot rely just on goodwill.

In the age of globalization, and as a firm believer in the efficiency of market economy and capitalism, I think it is still time to reintroduce a new sort of new, rebranded "International Socialism" where "workers/people of the world, unite!" for everyone's good.

The goal would be that people can have access to enough food, decent accommodation, healthcare, and retirement, so that on top of this base, we can use the efficiency of a globalized market economy.

Not sure where to start...