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If robots do everything a person can do for zero marginal cost, then the we are in a post-scarcity utopia, why is that bad?

because you have exactly two use cases under that "utopia": backbreaking labor that robots aren't good at yet, and source of Soylent green.

that is assuming there are still tasks that robots are not good at, which I predict will remain the case for a long time. without those, humans just become unnecessary biomass. anyway, if you expect some part of these fantasies to come to pass within your lifetime, expect to give up your reproductive rights in exchange for ubi or some such.

Just like cells in an organism, is apoptosis murder or reclamation?

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