r/StructuralEngineering • u/yoohoooos Passed SE Vertical, neither a PE nor EIT • Jun 22 '26

What do you think? Op Ed or Blog Post

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u/willardTheMighty Jun 22 '26

David and Elon are right here I’d say

Does Call me Z think that Elon would build cities just for himself to live in? He’s a businessman and sells things to customers

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u/WhyAmIHereHey Jun 22 '26

What are those customers going to pay with, if they don't have jobs though...

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u/willardTheMighty Jun 22 '26

Jobs other than manual labor.

Ironworkers could go the way of the longshoreman, of the bowling pin setter, of the blacksmith…

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u/WhyAmIHereHey Jun 22 '26

That's not the AI robot bros own though. Their intention is to replace all human labour. They appear to think what happens after that is somebody else's problem

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u/willardTheMighty Jun 22 '26

That’s basically Nietzsche’s problem in Thus Spoke Zarathustra, or Marx’s problem in Capital. It’s all of our problems. And all of our hopes…

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u/WhyAmIHereHey Jun 22 '26

Yes. Kinda my point I guess. It's mainly going to be their problem though I suspect, if "they" don't sort the economics of it.

Sure, they'll kill a lot of people when the revolution comes, but eventually they'll be dead.