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> When people’s sensorium becomes an infinite firehose of AI-generated superstimulus, why would they hang out with anyone?

Well, a fairly good solution here is to become immune (or allergic to, or afraid of) superstimulus.

Also, I dunno, this is kind of like saying animals of species X are going to stop being interested in each other because humans exist.

Across what time period?

Most people do better economically over their lifetimes because most people's earnings grow as they progress in their careers.

The backlog is always infinitely large since you can always find things to change for no reason, sure. For that I recommend KonMari-ing it.

But if people are more productive then you can find new things for them to do, unless demand is falling.

Increased productivity makes employees more valuable, not less.

> It's in the interest of your employer to get the greatest amount of value for the smallest wage.

No it's not necessarily, because employment is a repeated game with public information.

(Other people can see how much you're paying people by checking levels.fyi/blind/etc.)

There's better ways to motivate people anyway - thus tech companies pay with stock grants and performance bonuses.

Most people are poor because being poor is the natural state of sentient beings. You should be amazed anyone is ever not poor.

Foreign companies suddenly increasing local wage levels isn't popular with local governments because it means all the local essential workers, doctors, government employees etc quit their jobs to work for the foreign company.

> You can still move if furniture was more expensive and higher quality.

But it's so heavy!

> You can't restore old furniture so the used market is full of stuff nobody really wants if they have the choice.

My last mover actually did repair half of my furniture because he had a bunch of spare Ikea parts.

That's right-NIMBYism. California is expensive because of left-NIMBYism in the cities, and pastoralist old people in the suburbs.

(Also because of firefighters. And American urban planners who basically believe their job is to stop any project that anyone ever objects to.)

> Today the furniture we buy is much less expensive as a percentage of income but the quality is crap and you may end up needing to replace it once the finish has worn off because refinishing would be as expensive as buying another crap quality piece of furniture.

But that's not a problem and is likely a good thing. eg it lets you move more often which reduces your commute.

Though none of my Ikea furniture has ever failed and most of it is ~15 years old.

Users don't always have write access to the apps.

> There’s a reason we went from massages and pet daycare to rentier agriculture executive style management of the peons.

And that reason is "service businesses are too expensive in California because of high housing costs".

“If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will be what [Alan] Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God.”

-- Paul Krugman, 1997

Note this does not say "it will decrease if we suddenly invent new productivity technologies".

Copyleft comes with restrictions on code - you have to keep it public. It's the BSD licenses that basically don't.