I listened to your podcast episode with nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe today, and - thinking things to their logical endpoint - one thing that makes me somewhat worried with the scenario that AI and robots makes everything extremely cheap, is that a low price does not equal zero. It's necessary that we actually can have short working days for what, in the long term minuscule, amount of jobs that still require humans, or we will have 90% of humanity unemployed, not being able to afford anything, even if a car, or, more crucially, food for a year is just a fraction of a sat (we'll eventually have to find a way to divide sats...). Even further along, we'll run into a problem when working days goes down to minutes or even seconds. There's no reasonable way for a human to continue something productive, no matter what it is, without getting "up to speed" on the thing that's being done.

Would industry owners eventually have to give out free sats, in order to have any potential buyers of their products? It would of course have to be voluntary since we would be on a Bitcoin standard, but to me it seems too similar to UBI to fall into the category of plausible. Why would they give them out when it's not guaranteed that they'll come back to their own business?

If AI takes off as predicted, it thinking out how different kinds of robots should be constructed, and it keeps building on itself, this scenario might easily happen within our lifetimes, despite us now not seeing any possible way of that happening, that's the power of exponential growth (pun semi-intended).