The essay arguing that if AI does everything, even the billionaires become pets (borretti.me)
The argument: capital protects you only while the state needs the value humans create. Strip that out and property rights are whatever an AI-run state decides to honor. The rich, Borretti claims, “just don't have that much political power” once they're materially redundant.
The thread's best rebuttal isn't optimism — it's that the essay smuggles in its conclusion, quietly upgrading “can do all work” to “runs autonomously, has its own goals, is conscious,” until the doom is just a tautology.
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