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 Okay; let’s run with that for now. Even if that is right, the theory of [[technological unemployment]] assumes:
 *that all labour activities in the economy can, and before long, will have been articulated in such a way that they can be entirely, reliably and cheaply carried out by [[artificial intelligence]];
-*that once they have been so automated, those activities will nonetheless hold their value and become worthless overnight, as has every other artisanal craft made redundant by machinery in human history;
+*that once they have been so automated, those activities will nonetheless hold their value and won’t become ''worthless'' overnight, as has every other artisanal craft made redundant by machinery in human history;<ref>Ask yourself: how much would you pay to deliver a first-class email? Or to get your digital photographs developed?</ref>
 *that an economy which has been thus automated to saturation, and to which human participants no longer contribute, will still function more or less as normal, and
 *that, in other words, an entire economy not only can be fully determined —  ''solved'' — but has been: that our current polity is in a fully [[Taxonomy|taxonomised]], [[Taylorism|Taylorised]] end-of-history state in which no new activities or work categories are possible, and all that do currently exist can be more effectively carried out by machine — ''they have abolished the patent office'';