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Humans Need Not Apply script/recommended reading
http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/humans-need-not-apply
Humans Need Not Apply youtube
.....Right: this might have been a lot to take in, and you might want to reject it -- it's easy to be cynical of the endless, and idiotic, predictions of futures that never are. So that's why it's important to emphasize again this stuff isn't science fiction. The robots are here right now. There is a terrifying amount of working automation in labs and wear houses that is proof of concept. ....
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Originally posted by googlefudge[/b]If robots do everything, I think that'd be great. Perhaps there is something to Fresco's resource-based economy, after all. 🙂
Humans Need Not Apply script/recommended reading
http://www.cgpgrey.com/blog/humans-need-not-apply
Humans Need Not Apply youtube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Pq-S557XQU
.....Right: this might have been a lot to take in, and you might want to reject it -- it's easy to be cynical of the endless, and idiotic, predictions of futures that ...[text shortened]... amount of working automation in labs and wear houses that is proof of concept.....
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Originally posted by C HessRobots doing everything IS great, it's called the 'post scarcity' economy.
If robots do everything, I think that'd be great. Perhaps there is something to Fresco's resource-based economy, after all. 🙂
It's robots doing 50% of everything that is tricky.
Because you still need people working, but not enough people to make our current economic system function.
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Originally posted by googlefudgeWell and good but I want my robot horse NOW🙂
Robots doing everything IS great, it's called the 'post scarcity' economy.
It's robots doing 50% of everything that is tricky.
Because you still need people working, but not enough people to make our current economic system function.
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Originally posted by googlefudge
Robots doing everything IS great, it's called the 'post scarcity' economy.
Other terms that refer to this concept are sharing economy, abundance-based economy and resource-based economy.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-scarcity_economy
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Originally posted by C HessIt's by no means an unsolvable problem, and it's in fact possible to have every stage
I suppose so. 😕
be better than the last.
However it means giving up on a number of closely held economic beliefs that are firmly
baked into out political system/class.
I fear it's going to take some kind of bad times followed by revolution [of one sort or another]
to change that.
I hope otherwise, but that's what I fear will happen.
Because what increasing automation of nearly all jobs leads to in our current economic system
is increasing inequality, and concentration of power/wealth in an elite, the destruction of any sort
of middle class, and the creation of a vast out of work poor. [before the whole system collapses]
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Originally posted by twhiteheadYeah, although at the moment the "robots are taking our jobs" factor is relatively small.
Which is partly why our current economic system isn't functioning.
The current problems are overwhelmingly caused by other faults with the current economic system.
Over the next few decades however, that will all change.
And the "Robots are taking our jobs" factor will come to dominate [unless we change the economic system
to deal with the problems in the meantime].
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Originally posted by FabianFnasRobots doing all menial labour, and possibly more, leaving us to enjoy existence to the fullest.
All this just seems to be toys for boys. Nothing more.
What will be the use for it later? Where will it end?
Robots instead of horses on the racing tracks? So the animals wouldn't suffer?
Or what? Where will it end?