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Humanoid robots are here, but they're a little awkward. Do we really need them? (apnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology

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[–] demesisx@infosec.pub 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Of course we don’t need them. We don’t need so many things that the ruling class pushes on us like war and austerity.

What we have now is feudalism with a few extra layers of abstraction. Can you picture feudalism without the need for a class of serfs? I'll give you a hint..on a long enough timeline this humanoid robot serf replacement program produces only two potential outcomes:

countless murdered poor people.
post-scarcity utopia like we see in Star Trek: TNG.

Which one do you think is more likely?

Further thinking on this topic: https://youtu.be/7Pq-S557XQU?si=SQOhfYjLoy2rt0lw

[–] PM_ME_FAT_ENBIES@lib.lgbt 2 points 1 year ago

The utopia of Star Trek was only able to happen because they had a WWIII and the communists won