An essay says a 'peopleless economy' isn't technically impossible. The economists in the thread disagree (gmalandrakis.com)
The essay asks readers to examine their assumptions, then, critics say, makes whoppers of its own: that governments do nothing, that elites stay perfectly unified, that everyone else stays quiet.
The sharpest rebuttal modeled it as two countries — an AI island and everywhere else — and pointed out the island still needs to trade for things it can't produce, which keeps the rest of the economy very much alive.
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