Robots Aren’t Killing the American Dream
The gigantic wall of AI&#x2F;Automation is unavoidable and if the NYT can&#x27;t see it, I doubt a lot of people outside of tech do. It&#x27;s my biggest worry right now.<p>I worry because I am certain that the only way out of civil war is universal basic income (socialism) or cyberpunk-style fascism.<p>The repercussions of AI should be worrying every leader in the world right now.<p>Immigrants? H1-bs? Illegals? Robots? Please, let&#x27;s have a real talk.<p>Capitalism will destroy capitalism as we know it.<p><i></i>Edit:<i></i>  
Because my post is high up in this topic, I hope to get some attention of people that are more invested than me on figuring out this problem.<p>One of the least communist solutions I&#x27;ve thought of is a quasi-capitalistic economic system. Each publicly traded company should have profit-sharing-only stocks and profit-sharing&#x2F;management-voting stocks. Stop all wars and futile spending and buy profit-sharing stocks with our tax dollars. That is, let&#x27;s socialize part of every company&#x27;s profits but not management.<p>Let&#x27;s also ensure the system isn&#x27;t gamed by stashing profits offshore or having overpaid upper management to decrease profit numbers. Then we keep reinvesting a percentage of profits and future taxes into other publicly traded companies. Use the rest of the profits as the fund for universal basic income.<p>I think this whole thing is going to be a shit-show even if we can control the AI. If we can&#x27;t, may it have mercy on us.