• HobbitFoot
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    611 months ago

    The problem is that humans are really bad at caring for unproductive people. If you use wealth generated by natural resources as a proxy for wealth generated by robot labor, humans have a bad record of distributing the material wealth.

    • @isles
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      311 months ago

      humans are really bad at caring for unproductive people.

      That’s a current, not fundamental, observation.

      • HobbitFoot
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        411 months ago

        On the family level, you see some supporting of other family members. However, it becomes a lot harder as you go beyond people’s immediate kin.