[em500]

> Sure the 4,995 unemployed might be able to afford the gizmo, but the state does not receive the same taxes. So what happens to those 4,995 unemployed people ? who is paying for their health benefits and social security (retirement) ?

So are we're simultaneously facing a big unemployment crisis, and a big shortage of health care providers and retirement care takers?

[llsf]

One could argue that AI could replace or add to the health and retirement care work force... I am not saying it should happen, but I am trying to understand where we are going with the AI promises, and their impact on society.

If AI is so good that it can replace health and retirement care, then the price should fall to.

But basically, we would end up with AI and dark factories building gizmos to sustain and entertain humans and fixing them until they die.

I guess taxes at this point are irrelevant, AI could build new factories of factories, money would be useless.