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High GDP does not in itself result in high employment. It is simply a measure of wealth produced in the measured economy.

If I owned a fully-robotic factory that produced all the goods this country consumed, unemployment would be at 100%, but GDP would be the same (Because the amount of wealth produced would be the same as it is today.)

Capitalists aren't going to share their profit until we take it from them, either through taxes[1], or, ah, 'land reform'[2].

[1] The carrot.

[2] The stick.



Yes and No.

Output always creates more work, due to second law of thermodynamics (entropy). So, the more output you have, the more work you need to fight entropy. May be the Robots can deal with entropy too, but we aren't there yet.

So, AI will increase need of workforce / labor


> Output always creates more work, due to second law of thermodynamics (entropy).

...You're gonna have to explain that one, because I don't see how those things are connected at all.


every good and service created need additional maintenance/fixing/organizing. It also increases complexity


If we're positing a fully robotic factory to create the products, I feel very comfortable positing that either a) the products are fully disposable, or b) there can also be fully robotic maintenance/fixing/organizing of said products.


That's only true if we're at 100% efficiency. Which I can say with good certainty, we are not.




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