If AI Makes Human Labor Unnecessary, Who Buys Everything?
realcryptocow · reddit · 2026-09-11
A Reddit discussion raises an underexplored question: while most AI-automation debate focuses on workers, workers are also consumers. If AI lets companies produce far more with far less labor income, what replaces aggregate demand? The poster lists candidate answers — UBI, broader ownership of productive assets, dramatically cheaper goods — and asks how this actually plays out if AI proves as economically transformative as expected.
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