[xunil2ycom]

If humans are replaced en masse by AI agents, companies will save billions until there is nobody left who can pay for their products and/or services because we're all destitute and on the dole. I'm scheduled to retire in about 9 years. I'm not sure I'm going to make it that long.

[jofla_net]

Very true, If you take the number of tech jobs lost over the last couple years(in article) and multiply out, say, roughly $125K gross salary yearly, cut that in half for taxes (and things i missed) and you still are out tens of billions of dollars that people wont have to spend on things, big things.

I don't see how nobody will feel that loss of purchasing... Then again, we all know how detached the market is, someone from Schwab just yesterday telling me how things have "never been better."

[bamboozled]

According to other people, the robots will also be consumers.

Us "regular folk" are really just in for the ride now aren't we?

[Nevermark]

Owners of capital and machine labor can continue making bank and driving demand, even if there are no more human laborers making any money.

Humans are not necessary for an economy. It’s an easily missed assumption, because until now we are the only intelligent units of labor, capital ownership and demand.

But corporations long ago become units of all three, and AIs effectively become citizens simply by acting through an umbrella corporation. Corporations are (in)famously already first class political participates, via their money.

As long as AIs/corporations are motivated to compete and survive, demand from humans won’t be necessary for the economy to keep growing.

If anything, the ease with which AI/robotics will adapt to space habitats, and the vast resources untapped in the solar system, will enable a potentially human-independent economic explosion.

[pupppet]

We’ve orchestrated our own demise by valuing ever increasing revenue above all else. The cancer must grow, to hell with the host.