Ask A Genius 188 – Academic Political Views (Part 6)
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Ask A Genius
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/06/04
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Rosner: Yea. China is becoming capitalistic, but it is still dictatorial in a gazillion ways. So even if it is a weaker form of dictatorship killing 60 million people with the Cultural Revolution, it still has the power to screw over people.
It is unfortunate that there is no untainted or politically untainted way to talk about the ideas about sharing economies because as we enter an increasing automated world the nature of work may change and there may not be enough work to go around.
I can imagine – to not any great extent – a hyper-social media connected world, in which people just get stipends for contributing to social media discourse because so much other work is being done by AIs.
That would be a weird dystopia or may semi-utopia. It is as likely as Idiocracy, which is just one among a few trends in society – like most science fiction that grabs a few things to extrapolate. But the idea of a sharing economy is not going away mostly because of AI making work more scarce and making the products cheaper.
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