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Comment by akst

You can insist something is economically rational all you like but that doesn’t demonstrate it is

Think through the logistics of maintaining power after a sudden transfer of institutional power to an oligarchs where humans come obsolete and are being lined up to be exterminated? Do you think those people just disappear? Do you think jobless, aimless people, or the new poor have historically accepted such reversal of economic standing?

History almost suggests this leads to a complete breakdown of society

Do you think this is gonna be enforced by robots?

Do you know how much power comes from the fact that energy come companies reliant consumption?

Think, do you think of that power they built on goods sold to consumers stays around after the consumers disappear?

Calling this economically rational probably goes hard if you have a rudimentary understanding of second-order effects, and an understanding of economics built on YouTube videos & hot takes online.

Something you learn in most introductory economic classes, is slave labour is less efficient than free salaried workers, an observation that goes as far back Adam smith & Richardo.

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