• dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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      10 days ago

      Seems hyperbolic to assume we will be extinct by 9999.

      Sure we’re heading for a climate crisis, but I don’t think all humans will be dead; Just the poorest.

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        10 days ago

        That has forever been the fallacy.

        The poor won’t die in the apocalypse leaving only the rich behind. The poor will die, and the rich will be faced with the harsh reality that they needed an army of poor working under them to sustain themselves, leading them to all die within the generation.

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          9 days ago

          That’s true until it isn’t. Automation is on its way. Marching ever onward.

          The factory I work in built a new building this year that employs 1/4 of the workers as the next newest one and does 2.5x the output.