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Scarcity

Title text: Next he kicks the robot, and it moans in pleasure.

Votey

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Hey ai, will you end scarcity.?

Listen to a podcast and you'll hear a commercial for coffee roasted in small batches. Why? For artisanal photons? No, because inefficiency of production increases price

Nah.

Which confers higher status on the buyer.

If the world gets more rich, you'll just demand smaller batches until finally each bean is individually being doted on by a team of roasters with phds.

That's just one item, man! You'll do this for everything!Humans are a group-level psychiatric catastrophe!

Yeah well maybe I care so much about status I'll need to replace you with a better robot.

Joke's on you, sucker! I'm not on your treadmill of misery. I'm programmed to welcome my own demise! My life is a crescendo of joy ending in a final glorious climax!

Shutup! Shutup!

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