In a world where only the wealthy have survived and most labor is automated, a lot of the issues you point out simply would not exist.

I say most and not all because there are certain jobs the very wealthy are unlikely to want automated even if possible.

Nannies would be one of those jobs. Along with personal chefs, certain highly creative jobs, and areas that they simply don’t feel comfortable giving machines decision making power.

A partial collapse leading to a far smaller population is also a possibility.

A dystopian hell for the majority while a much smaller minority lives in unparalleled wealth.

Only the Utopian society survives, as the dystopian societies collapse and die off. Perhaps quickly due to famine and climate change. Perhaps over a couple of generations as they are provided basic food and shelter with anti-fertility mixed into the food as a condition.

There are many possible shades of grey, each with their own moral arguments and their own sets of winners and losers.

It matters little if it is Musk or someone else.

The technology is progressing.

https://www.bankrate.com/insurance/homeowners-insurance/home-ownership-statistics/#stats

The US home ownership rate is increasing, not decreasing.

Mostly each other, in a much smaller market with much less competition for resources.

It’s not like they will need laborers for anything beyond status symbols.

If those neighborhoods happen to have a higher crime rate, then you would absolutely want to focus more police activity there.

Which will be dismissed as algorithmically generated and not proof of sentience.

1. If 3rd world countries collapse, the availability of cheap labor increases. To the extent that society allows immigrants.
2. Automation is already reducing reliance on cheap labor. This is especially true in agriculture and food services.

If anything, the wealthy will soon reach a point where they no longer need laborers. At least not at anything resembling today’s volume.

Fascism as a response to climate driven immigration seems much more likely than a complete collapse.

Desalination plants are already capable of solving water shortages in the American West, just not at a price people are currently willing to pay.

Vertical Farming and cultured meats are pretty much climate independent. Again, not at a price most people are currently willing to pay.

It’s going to be the 3rd world countries that face collapse.

We don’t have unregulated capitalism outside of the shadow economy.

Pretty much every country in the world is some form of mixed economy with capitalism as one of its components.

Your list and definitions can be found here.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_system

Any species will expand to the destruction of its environment without natural controls.

Humans are no exception.

So, name a better existing economic system.

Capitalism is the worst system in the world.

Except for all the economic systems.

You are unlikely to have both a diesel vehicle and an EV, and an EV is the greener of the two.

Land, and housing, ownership is the single greatest means by which the middle class accumulates generational wealth.

By removing ownership, it is the middle class that gets held down. Not the wealthy.

At that point, why not solar panels and EVs?

It presupposes that those who have are already giving up some of their resources for redistribution.

A condition that is not likely to be true.

Lining the walkway to my house.

I end up having to replace my solar lights every couple of years.

Collection and consolidation to a processing facility in sufficient quantities to be meaningful could be problematic.

Yes, that is the comparison being made.

Two sides of the same coin as far as Meta is concerned.

Skeptics: how can we create consciousness, we don’t even understand it.

Realist: AI is already moving past our ability to understand. It will soon create more things even further beyond our understanding.

This pretty much describes me.

Never gone more than a few days unemployed since I was 16.

Some of those jobs were pretty shitty, but even the shitty jobs appreciated someone that showed up ready to work.

McDonalds? I had guaranteed hours and paid vacations six months after I started. Same working dish tank at another restaurant.

In the end, I found a great job with great people and good compensation and excellent work/ life balance.

The ability to kill does not make a society advanced.

The Aztecs where an an advanced society, but their areas of advancement were not all military.

But apparently the people on Reddit feel that that only thing that defines civilization is the ability to kill.

By that definition, Rome was less civilized than the Germanic tribes that overthrew them.