timtyler comments on The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is soliciting ideas - Less Wrong

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Comment author: timtyler 17 July 2010 08:51:07AM *  0 points [-]

It doesn't create employment for the rest of the humans. In this scenario, most humans are unemployed - and probably rather poor - due to the hypothesised lack of "substantial taxation" and government handouts. The throughput of the economy arises essentially from the efforts of the machines.