It’s weird that you automatically assume it’s something major without any supporting information.

It could just as easily be leaking information to the press or something else minor. We don’t know, nothing has been divulged.

An investigation could find a potential crime, or it could clear him. We don’t know because the investigation has not happened.

Even if the investigation finds a potential crime, it still has to go to trial. You would impose punishment without a trial? Imagine the outrage if this was the other way around.

He was sharing information.

No information provided about what information or to whom.

Walmart actually has a very low profit margin, <2%.

Walmart makes its money on volume.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/WMT/walmart/profit-margins

It’s a double standard to expect someone else to lose a retirement the have spent a lifetime paying into for a minor offense while everyone else gets to theirs.

Glad you acknowledged the double standard.

Depends on the pension.

I pay into both plus a 401k.

I have older coworkers with much better pension plans and no Social Security.

So, take away something that a police officer has been earning for a lifetime after being accused of a misdemeanor, but be damned if you can apply the same standard to me.

The more feasible parts of Star Trek are already here, only better.

The Hollywood Magic parts will remain Hollywood magic.

No amount of AI is going to change physics and start creating something from nothing.

Should we take away your social security if you are accused of a misdemeanor?

Not convicted, accused.

They will specifically not hire anyone.

They will include minorities in their AI generated images more frequently than they did with their real models.

Or anyone else.

1. You think on a much smaller scale than even today’s wealthy.
2. Automation will reduce costs.

Not 30 million jobs.

30 million owners trading among themselves.

No one person, even among the wealthy, will have all required resources.

So, humanity moves from its current economy to an economy with only 30 million participants.

They continue to buy and sell among themselves.

We have to make it up there in a cost efficient manner for it to be usable.

That’s a long ways away.

But what the heck. Elon Musk is taking the lead on getting us there. I’m sure everyone on Reddit will be ecstatic if he succeeds and becomes the world’s first trillionaire.

When the political will exists to act on a crisis, mountains can be moved.

We could solve the climate crisis just as quickly, if the political will existed. But it won’t happen until things get much worse.

I would love to see raw resources manufactured using only energy, but this is not Star Trek.

Or those who own the automation and the material resources will switch to a smaller, less inclusive economic system.

True wealth is resources, manufacturing capacity, and knowledge. Most of those left unemployed will have none of the above.

1. Congratulations, you have carbon. Now you need everything else.
2. mines can be automated, but there are a limited number of mines and those mines have a finite amount of resources.
3. arable land is a declining resource
4. there is only just so much available for a lot of other resources, see my sand example

Limited resources means supply and demand. The owners of those resources have only a finite amount available and will be selling them to the highest bidders. Just like today’s commodities markets.

The more limited resources will go up in at a rapidly increasing pace as demand increases. See lithium prices over time. And there’s not a lot to automate with lithium production.

https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2021/03/05/sand-shortage-the-world-is-running-out-of-a-crucial-commodity.html

https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/28037/lithium-carbonate-price-timeline/

https://www.engadget.com/2019-02-24-the-big-picture-lithium-salt-flats-chile.html

Automation won’t magically produce raw materials out of thin air.

You still need to buy those.

You don’t get one without the other.

Work that would not have been done without him.

You mean like sparking revolutions in electronic payments, electric vehicle production, commercialization of space, and global internet access?

He’s not the only player involved in any of these industries, but he was the first to achieve large scale commercial success in all of them.

Look back just 50 years and realize just how much technology has already revolutionized the world within current lifetimes.

You assume things will be virtually free.

That’s a large assumption.

1. compute power won’t increase the availability of material or energy resources
2. the whole basis of UBI is taxation, a cost that will be passed on
3. those who own the systems will still want compensation and profit.
4. demand for basic services won’t decrease unless population is reduced.
5. some very basic resources are already facing reduced availability, e.g. the right types of sand for silicon chips and concrete.