Posted on 08/29/2019 6:36:51 AM PDT by C19fan
Don't worry.
We'll pass more laws and regulations that will require a new bureaucracy to administer this new AI. That will employ everyone.
You won’t quailfy for employer healthcare insurance or paid holidays or vacation.
Side hustle to make up the lost income stream
Are they going to pay me 4x my wages for the time I’m not working?
We won’t however. It is all a lie.
If you don’t work, you won’t eat.
What will happen is an underground would likely develop for the basic needs.
Look at China, if you’re social score is poor, you are denied basic rights.
They will deny you good if you are unapproved.
A just machine to make big decisions
Programmed by fellows with compassion and vision
We’ll be clean when their work is done
We’ll be eternally free yes and eternally young
-Donald Fagen
Having more leisure time is great but only if you fill that leisure time with worthwhile activities. Read some books. Learn a foreign language. Discover a new genre of music. Develop a skill or a trade. Explore the woods near your house. Go travelling to new places. Get some hobbies!
Speaking for myself, I have seen enormous changes in my industry over the past 30+ years. I remember having hanging files of clients and employees in my file cabinets and spending hours upon hours making out vacation schedules, scheduling quarterly account reviews, organizing sales and service manuals, brochures, etc., etc. Many other examples of work that used to involve putting pen to paper and sifting through file cabinets looking for a copy of that service contract or purchase order. Then there was opening and responding to mail. Not email but postal mail. A good hour or two per day just doing that!
All of that tedious work is now gone forever. Now done by apps and software programs.
I definitely see a 12 hour week becoming reality someday. Most jobs, people will be maintaining and programming robots or computers to do the bulk of the work. A century ago, people scoffed at a 40 hour week. It used to be normal to work 10-12 hours a day including Saturday. Sunday was really the only day off most working people had.
Here's a specific example of what I'm talking about here. Back in the 1990s, I ran a department of printer technicians. 20+ people who spent the entire day going around loading and configuring printer drivers, troubleshooting issues, adding ink, clearing paper jams, dealing with operator error issues. All that is gone. You buy a printer off the shelf these days, take it home, and it pretty much sets itself up when you plug it in. Then it works for 2-3 years until it needs ink or something and people just dump it in the trash and buy a new one.
True but just barely. They would be the ones that the hunger crazed mobs would litterly tear into pieces.
100% of your what if’s have been voiced by every detractor since Grog brought fire into a cave and the others claimed fire was dangerous and the smoke would kill them all in their sleep.
100% FUD.
AI will not be anything but a benefit to mankind. Change is scary, but change is the only constant this side of Paradise.
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