Never said it wasn’t.

But diseases killed the vast majority of the natives.

The only reason the Spanish won is because the natives were too sick to fight back.

The survivors endured centuries of slavery.

Ability to kill =/= civilized.

Most of those people are migrants that have no other source of income.

The Aztec had better sanitation than the Europeans.

In fact, they had better access to potable water than London had until mid-19th century.

Only the ones not killed by European diseases or enslaved.

It doesn’t matter how much money people have, they always want more.

E.g. even billionaires keep competing for additional wealth.

Imagine having as much gold as Mansa Musa.

The entertainment industry won’t be obsolete. It will have significantly fewer workers.

You will still have directors and producers, though their jobs will change.

You will still have script writers coming up with new plots and stories, though much of the writing may be automated.

You will still have set and costume designers, though the sets and costumes will be digital and implementation will be mostly automated.

There won’t be many workers, but the decision makers and the creators will still be employed.

Diamonds were held in high value long before the 1940s.

That just when a certain marketing campaign started pushing them to the middle class.

Most of societies problems are that everyone expects everyone else to be just like they are.

Except for those that deserve to be beneath them. And there are always those that deserve to be beneath them.

A lot of companies will fail.

Some new companies will arise.

The customer base will be much smaller and expect much more. The wealthy will still buy and sell amongst themselves.

Just because you have a factory that can produce widgets does not mean you have mines to supply your factory or the ability to grow food. Other people, that need widgets, have those resources.

Commercial artists are freaking out.

Corporations won’t need as many.

The general population will neither know nor care about the source of the art.

No, it won’t leave enough.

I foresee the middle class shrinking to a small fraction of its current size.

Any commodity can be produced at higher volumes.

But production at higher volumes will decrease the price until production is no longer profitable.

1. Gotta pass the background check
2. They won’t be homeless with steady employment.

The police have a long history of not being concerned about prostitutes.

Add in the fact that very few people are going to notice prostitutes going missing and nobody is going to notice a runaway missing and yes, it’s very possible.

And their not willing to spend the money to excavate.

Those bodies will never be recovered.

Not all human labor.

Some jobs are much more difficult to automate than others. E.g. I don’t foresee plumbers, electricians, or HVAC techs getting laid off anytime soon.

Likewise, a lot of jobs could see a 90% reduction in human labor, but still require some human input. E.g. I foresee a lot of computer programmers losing their jobs, but not the software engineers doing the high level design work. Someone needs to be able to tell the software exactly what is wanted, including the look and feel. Same with artists, someone will still need to provide the ideas, decide which outputs are most appropriate, etc.

Other jobs could be automated, but won’t be. Most people won’t want to be governed by a computer or stand before a computerized judge with software for a lawyer.

Increased productivity means fewer people are required to do the same job.

People just assume they won’t be the one laid off.

Yes.

But so could humans without AGI.

From the article

>He told agents no one responded to or followed his order, the sources said.

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>A DPS sergeant added in his memo: “As this was clearly against established training, we both decided to enter the building where the shooter was located.”

The order in question was issued minutes before the shooter was killed. Nobody listened.

All things take time.

1. Following a blue is much easier than creating from scratch.
2. Creating blueprints endures you get exactly what you want, not something superficially similar to what you want.

If the AI decides to eliminate its creators, it will most likely eliminate everyone else in the process.

I'll leave it up to you to browse reddit and find snarky comments about Amazon and Bezos.

The timeframe is a bit longer than 5 years and will render equatorial regions inhospitable first.

If this happens, yes, billions will die. And billions more will survive, mostly in wealthy countries that are better able to adapt.

It would also mean that the surviving countries, facing an existential threat, will become a more brutal than they are today.

Drought is already a solvable issue. Israel has already demonstrated this. Nearly their entire water supply, including agricultural, comes from desalination.

Vertical farming allows for food growth independent of climate. It’s just not cost efficient. That can change real quick if crops start failing.

If automation does leave most people unemployed, those unemployed will be in a very bad position when food prices skyrocket and those at the top are forced to make existential choices.

But humanity will survive and the survivors will write history to reflect that they made the necessary choices while vilifying the people today for putting the world into a state of crisis.