Just show up and show them the booking confirmation!

I could imagine this becoming in reality. Maybe in 2 or 3 world wars and 100 more genocides there might be a society emerging like this.

It is obvious that this society is superior. It is also obvious that it is impossible to achieve for any culture that is living today.

We are already optimising and automating a shit ton! And we could already rest more than 100 years ago. Instead we just consume more.

I have like four different pairs of trousers, a 75 inch flat screen tv, a laptop, a tablet, a phone, a smart watch, and I eat meat like three times a week ( which is even low compared to my kin ). Stuff breaks all the time and a buy new ones.

My 80 year old uncle told me they did usually not eat meat when he was a child. They had two eggs per week, which were used for baking. And they were not poor. A normal household.

If we would consume as much as 100 years ago, I bet we could send half the work force into life long vacation!

My other bet is that our wealth will rise the more we automate, but we will still be working the same amount to afford our future wealth.

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Did you ever have 2000€ in your bank account and 0.63€ in your wallet? And then it was summer and you were thirsty, so you bought something with your card instead of riding the tram to the next ATM to get a 50€ bill and ride the tram back to the kiosk, where they did not have the right exchange for the 50€ bill, which was then the reason to visit the stores around to exchange money, what they did but they looked at you very suspiciously, because that’s a common theme for a scam, and then you could finally buy your drink, but the whole ordeal cost you 45 minutes?

That’s just one example.

Thanks for the TL;DR.

What difference does the form of currency make when people still use some rewards program to have their shopping tracked, or with all the NFC chips on products, that track you through the whole store?

I believe the form of payment is the minor issue here.

I don’t know the issues. Didn’t read the article.

That was too long to read. I already hardly ever use cash. It is so inconvenient.

Let me fix that!

I define € means ∈ in the context of my comments.

I define € in the context of currency to be written as „€uro“

I learned something new here!

I thought an orgy would imply that for each fucking tuple (h1, h2) € F[H], there exists at least another pair where (hx, h3) € F[H], hx € {h1, h2}, so that there are not two disjoint strict subsets of O.

In textual words: When Tobi and Torben have sex, and Brunhilde and Gudrun have sex, I thought this is not an orgy. There must be a connection between those two pairs. I bet I am having an orgy with a lot of strangers by the definition of this paper.

Twitter turning into Truth Social?

Donald Duck

In the past there was a big overhead in managing all of that. But I could think that this is coming to an end.

Solutions could be: Make weekend longer / Work less hours a day / implement minimum income (regardless if you work or not).

A more realistic scenario would be: Scale up productivity. All work is done by AI and robots? Just create even more wealth with more people working on and with robots and AI.

AI is bad at creating things that have not been there. It is good at structuring data in a new way. So there is still a demand to create new things.

I don’t see much difference between a machine replacing a bank teller to give out the cash, a machine to put together the majority of a car, or a robot replacing a health care worker completely.

In all cases some jobs were removed, but other jobs were created. Production and wealth go up quickly, but so does demand.

Almost everyone today has a larger television than the richest man 50 years ago. And you can afford new electronic devices every couple of years, while 50 years ago you only bought them when they broke after 20 years.

So I believe prices will still go up, as we will want to have more and more stuff.

If I only bought what my parents could afford at my age, then I would probably be quite rich. (Big exception is housing!) But that’s now how society works. We buy more and more, mostly for convenience. And convenience will go up with robots and AI. (Is it that unlikely that everyone will have a star-gourmet-quality chef robot cooking in their house and ordering all required ingredients on its own? I think that prospect sounds very reasonably realistic). But you will have to pay for the robot, the AI service, the truffles, the caviar, the ostrich egs…. and it will be just the normality people live in. (just like amazon replaced sending your butler to Harrods)

Therefore I believe there will still be an increased demand for goods even when our productivity goes up and people will need more money, hence inflation, not deflation.

Why deflation? Deflation is poison for any economy. If deflation is a risk, you must print more money. Central banks aim to keep inflation at 2% per year. (Which is a difficult task). Deflation is the death of market systems.

Robots already do most of the work. In every industry you see people operation machines to do all the work. The way our outdated financial system works is, that the machine owner gets the warnings. AI and fully autonomous robots will work the same way. So I doubt it will change something, when the system stays as it is.

Not sure if it really will stay this way. Autocracies are emerging more and more. China will be the next big financial superpower. It may be that they will force a overhaul for the better. (Unfounded careful optimism. One of the few positives of autocracy are easy change processes. Maybe it will work this time)

That’s very far fetched. I believe most genocides in human history were committed against societies that did not allow same sex marriage. Maybe even all.

Maybe it’s the creators that delete your comments as well. Doesn’t have to be only YT.

YouTube and Spotify are paying license fees to be allowed to play music on their platform.

Yeah, that’s certainly true.

It’s pretty incredible what we know about history, just from guessing by what we find and second guessing the first guess with more findings.

Or how we know pretty much all steps how the language evolved from Latin, thousands of years ago, to Italian, which is spoken today.

What I despise is when things are quite clear and politics just act like we would not know. Like how „brain drain“ is still a valid talking point while science already knows it’s false.

This is a tragedy for all Texans! Next, they will ban all medical examinations during pregnancies, so something like this will never happen again!