Loss of sense of purpose and self-worth will be the most dramatic social impact.

There’s a deep satisfaction in doing any useful work. If you wash windows for a living and are able to support your family, be proud of that.

Why would poverty be eliminated? There will still be constraints, such as material, land and things that require time to produce (aged or grown products). Everyone will not get a super yacht and private jet. I see no reason that wealth inequality will diminish, since the greed of the rich/powerful is insatiable.

The abundance of stuff should not be mistaken for prosperity. We have more stuff now than ever but happiness and contentment are not higher.

A quote from Ambassador Kosch of Babylon 5:

I think with this, poverty will probably rise like never seen. Not because of lack of resources but for the well known greed of those who have all the power. We tend to forget the typical evilness when we predict the future.

Thank You for helping us resist “brain rot” ! :)

The perfect storm:

As for digital cameras, I worked at Kodak in the 1990s when the r&d boys brought their digital camera invention to then CEO George fisher. He famously laughed and said something to the effect of " why would people want to take their own digital photos when they can just use one of our film cameras, send us that film & we develop their photos for them?"

I have a fundamental question: if most of humans will end up without work since ai and robots will take over, who is going to buy all the products and services that the robots and ai will produce?

I was a fan of UBI for about 5 minutes but then I started wondering were the billionaires that own all the means of production and all the labor power going to be controlling that UBI?

Can we replace all politicians,as most of them are corrupt

People fail to grasp the fact that once you've trained one robot in a task, you have trained EVERY robot in that task.

We already have robots washing our cars, washing clothes, connecting our calls (replaced “switch-board operators”….