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A post-labor world is necessarily a post-capital world. It is pretty impressive that the only way we can envision this happening is by inventing a species of robots that somehow concurrently A.) have all the same reasoning and functioning capabilities as humans and B.) are completely subservient to humans to perform labor. Specifically addressed to TFA: you are already part of the permanent underclass.

Ah, great to read I made the cut! :D

I have to disagree that post-labor necessarily means post-capital. Production requires multiple other scarce inputs, which is why I also make the explicit assumption in the post of significantly accelerated scientific progress that will also reduce the cost of energy, externalities, etc

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