Post-scarcity AI debate: dignity-of-work vs livelihoods destroyed before abundance arrives
GarrisonLovely · x · 2026-10-17
akarlin argues critics of post-scarcity utopia invoking the 'dignity of work' should stint in a Dhaka garment factory or as subsistence farmers. Garrison Lovely pushes back: if you promise AI abundance, you must explain how it reaches everyone — not years or decades after destroying livelihoods — and governments face no easy way to tax the companies owning the robots. A snapshot of the AGI social-impact debate.
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