We are maybe a few months away from a startup claiming their AI will turn lead into gold, raise the dead, and conquer the heavens to usurp God. They just need a modest 20 billion dollars in funding to make it happen.

Time to build a startup that replaces all human workers in AI startups everywhere and just uses AI to spin up more startups, automatic grant applications, etc.

> The market potential here is absurdly large: workers in the US are paid around $18 trillion per year in aggregate. For the entire world, the number is over three times greater, around $60 trillion per year.

This is an appeal to greed - let's stop paying wages and make a ton of money in the process. But, if you automatize all work, how will you distribute all this abundance ? How will people without wages afford to buy your goods ? How will you prevent the formation of a society split into masters and slaves ?

Some people have a God complex, they imagine that they know better and everyone should follow their ideas.

I kind of get it. Just rip the band aid off already. If we are all gonna be unemployed and the economy is going to be AI and robots then let’s just do it. Capitalism as we know it will fundamentally change or fail, there will be a revolution or laws will be enacted to finally build safety nets everywhere and we can get over this will-they-won’t-they bullshit of employers threatening everyone’s livelihoods because “vibe coding”.