Viewpoint: Blocking Automation Maintains Scarcity and Suffering
TinfoilTricorn · x · 2026-08-28
The author critiques the idea of taxing tokens used to simulate bodies and healing, arguing that those who claim to preserve human jobs are actually increasing suffering for profit.
The post states that the goal of automation is to lower costs and increase economic mobility amidst abundance. Since people are not static, if displaced by AI, they will adapt to use it. The author suggests that powerful actors aim to prevent technology adoption that disrupts systems of exploitation, creating artificial scarcity to sell solutions at a high cost.
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