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13 hours agoExcept that if the Romans actually built high-rises, the damned things would probably still be standing.


Except that if the Romans actually built high-rises, the damned things would probably still be standing.


I’m all for an AI tax to offset the jobs replaced, with that tax going towards providing a universal basic income to those displaced workers, for life. Maybe then AI will actually be useful for something.
And meanwhile, name structures of similar scale built with modern engineering would probably be gone long in a fraction of the time.