Kevin Karhan 
@smallcircles @tamewhale *YES! EXACTLY THAT!!*…
I guess #Hawking was right all along…
If machines produce everything we need, the outcome will depend on how things are distributed.
Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution.
So far, the trend seems to be toward the second option, with technology driving ever-increasing inequality.
Kevin Karhan :verified: (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image @[email protected] @topher *exactly that* is my main gripe. The reason the #EU refused to standardize upon [IEC 60906-1](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60906-1#Possibility_of_acceptance_in_European_Union) was because they expected it to generate 700.000t of 100% avoidable #eWaste (or ~ 1,4 kg per EU citizen). - IDK about you, but even if people were to only throw out mainboards due to #CensorBoot (which noone does!) we'd easily see way more eWaste due to #Windows11 in the EU alone, yet @[email protected] and @[email protected] don't even bat an eye. And that really infuriates me like this:
Kevin Karhan 