No, no, this could not work. Let's think it through.Quote from Daal:
... One thing that could change things for good in a huge way would be artificial inteligence, but maybe our bots will nuke us before they do us any good
Sentient artifical life forms (SALFs) do all our work for us. Wait, we don't have to pay them any more than we pay a server now when we stick it in a rack. Great, corporations have cheap (in fact zero outlay) labor, and productivity is close to infinite. Awesome.
Next, corporations go to sell their products. Hmmm, SALFs don't have any money nor do they need any. Human beings don't work anymore and don't have money. What good is all the productivity?
You see, people like Marx and Hegel have thought about these things, and they have thought them through to their conclusions. Our entire enconomy is based on selling things to people, 90% of them things they don't need (the most amazing magic trick in the history of the world). Capitalism in it's current form eventually must implode. It may take three hundred years or a thousand, but the logical conclusion is inescapable. Money is a bootstrap. A bootstrap to what will take a Newton or Keynes (some say a Jesus) of the future.
Now, the future that [current] corporations need is a future like that dreamt by Philip Dick in "Blade Runner" ("Do androids dream of electric sheep?"). In this future, SALFs come in models. So we have sex models, and combat models etc. But human beings still do the [easy] work (somebodys got to do it). That could work, I guess....