Re: Economics

Don Geddis <don@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

If robots can grow all the food that anyone wants, and supply all
the power, then those things will no longer have a cost (just like
sunlight and air), and anyone can use as much as they want of any of
it.

Until the robots are smart enough to realize they have better things to
do with their time, and start to ask what "value" these people have.

Even with Asimov's three laws in place, I suspect at some point a clever
robot will decide that making people "pay" isn't really harming them.
.

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