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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Subject: Re: Bill Gates
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Sci Fi did this long ago.

Sort of. I can't recall one that predicts people being replaced by robots, and then there is massive poverty and riots. Usually it is utopian (i.e. people living in luxury), and then the robots/AI go bad in some manner. But maybe I didn't see/read whatever you're thinking of (or maybe I just forgot...I do that a lot).

Up until now, automation has largely been a positive. It makes people more efficient, and -so far- new jobs are created at least as fast as old jobs are obsoleted. With AI, that probably won't happen. Not that it will replace everything. I suspect it will provide augmentation such that one person could do the work that was done by 5 or more, including doctors and lawyers and engineers (which have largely been spared from job loss as technology has advanced).

Most sci-fi I'm familiar with have future automation, but usually there is the haves and have-nots, and the dystopia springs from that societal inequity. Sometimes exacerbated by overpopulation (e.g. Soylent Green).
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